A Bayard From Bengal. Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh…

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CHAPTER I. FROM CALCUTTA TO CAMBRIDGE OVERSEA ROUTE

CHAPTER II. HOW MR BHOSH DELIVERED A DAMSEL FROM A DEMENTED COW

CHAPTER III. THE INVOLUNTARY FASCINATOR

CHAPTER IV. A KICK FROM A FRIENDLY FOOT

CHAPTER V. THE DUEL TO THE DEATH

CHAPTER VI. LORD JOLLY IS SATISFIED

CHAPTER VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNWIELDY GIFTHORSE

CHAPTER VIII. A RIGHTABOUT FACER FOR MR BHOSH

CHAPTER IX. THE DARK HORSE

CHAPTER X. TRUST HER NOT! SHE IS FOOLING THEE!

CHAPTER XI. STONE WALLS DO NOT MAKE A CAGE

CHAPTER XII. A RACE AGAINST TIME

CHAPTER XIII. A SENSATIONAL DERBY STRUGGLE

CHAPTER XIV. A GRAND FINISH

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MR Bhosh's diligence at his books was rewarded by getting through his Little-go with such éclat that he was admitted to become a baccalaureate, and further presented with the greatest distinction the Vice-Chancellor could bestow upon him, viz., the title of a Wooden Spoon!

But here I must not omit to narrate a somewhat startling catastrophe in which Mr Bhosh figured as the god out of machinery. It was on an afternoon before he went up to pass his Little-go exam, and, since all work and no play is apt to render any Jack a dull, he was recreating himself by a solitary promenade in some fields in the vicinity of Cambridge, when suddenly his startled ears were dumbfounded to perceive the blood-curdling sound of loud female vociferations!

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Mr Bhosh, however, ran on undauntedly, until, perceiving that the delirious creature was irrevocably bent on running him to earth, he took the flying leap into the shop of a cheese merchant, where he cleverly entrenched himself behind the receipt of custom.

With the headlong impetuosity of a distraught the cow followed, and charged the barrier with such insensate fury that her horns and appertaining head were inextricably imbedded in a large tub of margarine butter.

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