Cooper has told us how and by what signs, in years that have forever faded, the Huron tracked his flying foe through the forests of the North; we read of Cuban bloodhounds, and of their frightful baying on the scent of the wretched maroon; we know how the Bedouin follows his tribe over pathless sands;and yet all these are bunglers, in comparison with the Gaucho rastreador!

They were terrible bunglers when it came to scouting, and they even laughed at themselves; that was the best part of it.

The sooner we feel the value of beginnings, the sooner we realize that we can put bunglers and botchers anywhere else better than in nursery, kindergarten, or primary school (there are no three places in the universe so "big with Fate"), the sooner we shall arrive at better results.

Yet any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name.

But not by every bungler and ordinary text-divider; but by a man of great cunning and experience.

It is not my fault that these bunglers unleashed their hound, but at least I shall have the credit of having made a single-handed capture of one very desperate and dangerous conspirator.'

And as those that are bunglers and unskilful in any art take more pains to do nothing, because they are in a wrong way, than those that are ready and expert to do the excellentest things, so the errors and mistakes of his religion engage him in perpetual troubles and anxieties, without any possibility of improvement until he unlearn all and begin again upon a new account.

The latter has nothing but enemies; because intellectual superiority is everywhere and under all circumstances the most hateful thing in the world, and especially to bunglers in the same line of work, who want to pass for something themselves.

In that way, any bungler can reveal what is passing in the minds of his personages.

Classical art was the only art; all painters before the age of Raphael superstitious bunglers.

Cowards and bunglers, whose heart or whose eye is slow, Find themselves staring alone.

First then of physic, to give you an accurate idea of the extent of their knowledge in which, it will be sufficient to describe their practice of it; and I am sure you, my dear D, and every other friend to humanity, will agree with me, that it would have been better for their countrymen if they had never attempted it at all, as unassisted nature would do more, for those afflicted with disease, than such bunglers.

Apparently they have all been bunglers.

" The volume contains some interesting antiquarian inquiries respecting Caesar's ford at Kingston, and Maxims for an Angler, by a Bungler.

Hard features every bungler can command; To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

20 Nature herself lies open to your view; You judge by her, what draught of her is true, Where outlines false, and colours seem too faint, Where bunglers daub, and where true poets paint.

Or maybe he has journeyed abroad, say to Provence, a land free from such out-of-date bunglers as

the Queen said, not ungently, "I contrive, it may be, but to demonstrate that many tyrants of antiquity were only bunglers.

The crime of a bungler.

© 11Aug22, A681963. R62135, 11May50, Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (PWH) THE CRIME OF A BUNGLER, by Richard Connell.

In these really domestic scenes, where the painter sought unreproved his models in simple nature, and trusted for his effect to what was holiest and most immutable in our common humanity, he must have been a bungler indeed if he did not succeed in touching some responsive chord of sympathy in the bosom of the observer.

He will then wish to say everythinga false tendency of young geniuses, or an instinctively correct prejudice of old bunglers.

He never forgives a bungler.

The order was obeyed, but the shot fell short of the intention, on which he jumped up and cursed the fellows for bunglers who had fired the gun.

His Götz von Berlichingen and his Werther were received with a degree of enthusiasm, to be sure; but so, too, were the works of common bunglers, and Goethe had but a small niche in the temple of literature.