The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

th, surrounded by innumerable black faces; and a Hindoo pothukoor (whence ou

strange apartment which met my view. "Bekhusm!" said the apothecary. "Silence! G

e fort- the garrison-the elephant-Belinda, my love-my darl

ly upon my poor shattered mind and frame, that both failed once

ought on (as indeed well they might) by my gigantic efforts in carrying the elephant up a steep hill a quarter of a mile in length. Walking, the task is bad enough: but running,

seen him before. No-yes-no-yes-it was he: the snowy white beard, the mild eyes, the nose flattened to a jelly, and level with the rest of the venerable face, proclaimed him at once to be-Saadut Alee Beg Bimbukchee, Hol

bedside and, taking gently my hand, said, "Life and death, my son, are not ours. Strength is deceitful, valour is unavailing, fame is only wind-the nightingale sings of the rose all night-where is the rose in the morning? Booch, booch! it

stoutly, and in the Ma

l bear it l

ch there is not a turning, no night so black to which there comes not a mornin

han is no reader of puzzles-no prating mol

ujputi: you are i

now

most horrible torture

are

ur jaws, your nails from your fing

poss

you alive, and

y can't do

n in yonder fort"-it was not then taken!

eak-how can all

loves the moon-fa

izier, to d

is he in the K

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ain-oh, shame! Of

ishman, and

very particular about

as,

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too

ou to madness;-with Puttee Rooge, who is the wife, you shall have the wealth and rank of Bobbachy Bahawder, of whom his Highness intends to get rid. You shall be second in command of his Highness's forces. L

fourteen years, but a rascally valet, seeing it very dirty, washed it, forsooth, and washed off every bit of the wri

d to give him an answer. My mind, however, was made up-as so

were with him; one, by his martial appearance, I knew to be

" said the Vizier, as

ackamoors! do your worst; heap tortures on this body, they cannot last long. Tear me to pieces: after you have torn me into a certain number of pieces, I shall not feel it; and if I did, if each torture could last a life, if each limb were to feel the a

r turned away; I saw a tea

t such beauty and such bravery should

only sneered and sa

destroyed thy armies? Who, with his pistol, cleft in twain thy nose-ring? Who slew thy generals? Who slew thy elephants? Three hundred mighty beasts wen

rawing his scimitar, rushed on to despatch me at once (it was the very thing I

es-remember, oh, remember my-love!"-and here she blushed, and putting one finger int

s fooling, Puttee Rooge," continued the tyrant, dragging her away. "Captain Gahagan dies three hours from hence." Puttee Rooge gave one scream and f

readers to be in the same situation, and to be hanged themselves, let me earnestly entreat them to adopt this plan of going to sleep, which I for my part have repeated

d me, restored to his rank and state; troops of cavalry hemmed us in on all sides; my ass was conducted by the common executioner: a crier went forward, shouting out, "Make way for the destroyer of the faithful-he goes to bear the punishment of his crimes." We came to the fatal plain: it was the very spot whence I had borne away the el

ed out Bobbachy Bahawder, ferocious

face)-"not so pale as you looked when I felled you with this arm-not so pale as your women looked when I e

m the ground, was an iron ring, to which were attached two fetters; in these my wrists were placed. Two or three executioners stood near, with stran

as that which had been hinted to me the day previous by the Grand Viz

. The Grand Vizier came up to me-it was his duty to stand by,

head, but di

essible anguish, and with a voice choking wit

ee," said he, "THE OIL DOES NOT BOIL YET-wait one minute." The assistants blew, the fire blazed, the oil w

ladle of scalding oil had been dashed in the face of the unhappy Grand Vizier, who lay on

sabres gleamed in the sun, their voices rung in the air. "D- them!" they cried, "give it them, boys!" A strength supernatural thrilled through my veins at that delicious music: by one tremendous effort, I wrested the post from its foundation, five feet in the ground. I could not release my hands from the fetters, it is true; but, grasping the beam

nd and foe in that wild chase had swept far away. We were alone: I was freed from my immense bar

"Gentlemen, did I not tell you we sh

man rode on: and this

RPRISE OF FUTTYGHUR,

ber,

g announcement appeared in the Boggley

ond daughter of Major-General Bulcher, C.B. His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief gave away the bride; and, after a splendid dejeuner, the happy pair set off to p

such the event-the happ

M.H.E.I.C.

tno

ddy relate the following fact. The hours, as it is known, count in Italy from one to twenty-four: THE DAY MAC LANDED AT NAPLES H

ol enough to go out with small swords:- miser

ice; but it contained no extract from a newspaper, and does not quite prove that

reader may recollect is mentioned by Suidas (in his Comment

part. Shah Allum was notoriously blind: how, then, could

times; but if, in the works of Byron, Scott, Goethe, or Victor Hugo, the reader can find a more beautiful sentence than t

f his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, accordi