A Bayard From Bengal by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee

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A BAYARD FROM BENGAL

[Illustration: EXHORTED HER, WITH AN ELOQUENCE THAT MOVED ALL PRESENT, TO ABANDON HER FRIVOLITIES AND LEVITIES (Frontispiece)]

A BAYARD FROM BENGAL

BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MAGNIFICENT AND SPANKING CAREER OF CHUNDER BINDABUN BHOSH, ESQ., B.A., CAMBRIDGE, BY HURRY BUNGSHO JABBERJEE, B.A., CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY, AUTHOR OF "JOTTINGS AND TITTLINGS," ETC., ETC., TO WHICH IS APPENDED THE PARABLES AND PROVERBS OF PILJOSH, FREELY TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL STYPTIC BY ANOTHER HAND, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND APPENDIX BY THE ABOVE HURRY BUNGSHO JABBERJEE, B.A.

THE WHOLE EDITED AND REVISED BY F. ANSTEY AUTHOR OF "VICE VERSA," ETC. ETC.

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY BERNARD PARTRIDGE

METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1902

_Reprinted from_ "PUNCH"

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. FROM CALCUTTA TO CAMBRIDGE OVERSEA ROUTE

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

III. THE INVOLUNTARY FASCINATOR

IV. A KICK FROM A FRIENDLY FOOt

V. THE DUEL TO THE DEATH

VI. LORD JOLLY IS SATISFIED

VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNWIELDY GIFTHORSE

VIII. A RIGHTABOUT FACER FOR MR BHOSH

IX. THE DARK HORSE

X. TRUST HER NOT! SHE IS FOOLING THEE!

XI. STONE WALLS DO NOT MAKE A CAGE

XII. A RACE AGAINST TIME

XIII. A SENSATIONAL DERBY STRUGGLE

XIV. A GRAND FINISH

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THE PARABLES OF PILJOSH

PRELIMINARY

I have the honour humbly to inform my readers that, after prolonged consumption of midnight oil, I succeeded in completing this imposing society novel, which is now, by the indulgence of my friends and kind fathers, the honble publishers, laid at their feet.

My inducement to this enterprise was the spectacle of very inferior rubbish palmed off by so-called popular novelists such as Honbles Kipling, Joshua Barrie, Antony Weyman, Stanley Hope, and the collaborative but feminine authoresses of "The Red Thumb in the Pottage," all of whom profess (very, very incorrectly) to give accurate reliable descriptions of Indian, English or Scotch episodes.

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