In The Rescue of Pluffles, Pluffles is a subaltern (2nd Lieutenant) in a regiment known (for a concealing nickname) 'The Unmentionables'. Strictly speaking , a Captain or Major should have kept an eye on the junior officers and warned them off situations like this and the one detailed in “Thrown Away”. Hauksbee acted otherwise, and won his confidence, till he mentioned his engagement to the girl at Home, speaking of it in a high and mighty way as a "piece of boyish folly.

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Perhaps, in some hazy way, he fancied that it was fine and impressive, that it gave him a status among men, and was altogether the thing to do. Little by little, Pluffles fell away from his old allegiance and came over to the enemy, by whom he was made much of.The contest revealed the origin of the Puffles Dragon’s name: 'Puffles was a mix of a few things, puffy like a cloud + cuddles which is a typical name for something trying to be cute. He was the author of such works as A Guide to Training and Horse Management in India, 1875, and Illustrated Horse Breaking, 1889. Little by little, very softly and pleasantly, she began taking the conceit out of Pluffles, as you take the ribs out of an umbrella before re-covering it.

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Hauksbee was honest—honest as her own frontteeth—and, but for her love of mischief, would have been a woman’s woman. Page 58, line 2] Seven Weeks War in 1866 the Prussians under von Moltkte beat the Austrians at Sadowa; the war – which lasted only seven weeks, was nominally about the possession of Schleswig–Holstein but in reality expressed Bismarck’s intention that Prussia should supersede Austria as the leading state in Germany. He had as much judgment as he had seat or hands; and this preference tumbled him into trouble once or twice. a little, brown, thin, almost skinny, woman, with big, rolling, violet-blue eyes, and the sweetest manners in the world. Ms Pillai said: "Zohra Sehgal is admired across generations for her acting and loveable personality.Little by little, very softly and pleasantly, she began taking the conceit out of Pluffles, as they take the ribs out of an umbrella before re-covering it.