Chapter Bortell to Boustrapa of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

pays £30 a year to keep out of sight, and in a boasting way he pretends that “he was dragged up from the gutter to become a millionaire.” Mr. Bounderby marries Louisa, daughter of his neighbour and friend, Thomas Gradgrind, Esq., M.P.—Dickens: Hard Times (1854).

Bountiful (Lady), widow of sir Charles Bountiful. Her delight was curing the parish sick and relieving the indigent.

My lady Bountiful is one of the best of women. Her late husband, sir Charles Bountiful, left her with £1000 a year; and I believe she lays out one-half on’t in charitable uses for the good of her neighbours. In short, she has cured more people in and about Lichfield within ten years than the doctors have killed in twenty; and that’s a bold word.—Farquhar: The Beaux’ Stratagem, i. 1 (1705).

Bounty (Mutiny of the), in 1790, headed by Fletcher Christian. The mutineers finally settled in Pitcairn Island (Polynesian Archipelago). In 1808 all the mutineers were dead except one (Alexander Smith), who had changed his name to John Adams, and became a model patriarch of the colony, which was taken under the protection of the British Government in 1839. [Adams died 1829, aged 65.] Lord Byron, in The Island, has made the “mutiny of the Bounty” the basis of his tale, but the facts are greatly distorted.

In Notes and Queries, January 10, 1880, is given a list, etc., of all the crew. Corrected, etc., January 31.

Boustrapa, a nickname given to Napoleon III. It is compounded of the first syllables of Bou[logne], Stra[sbourg], Pa[ris]; and alludes to his escapades in 1840, 1836, 1851 (coup d’état).

(No man ever lived who was distinguished by more nicknames than Louis Napoleon. Beside the one above mentioned, be was called Badinguet, Man of December, Man of Sedan, Ratipol, Man of Silence, Verhuel, etc.; and after his escape from the fortress of Ham he called himself le count Arenenberg.)