BULLCALF (_Peter_), of the Green, who was pricked for a recruit in the army of sir John Falstaff. He promised Bardolph "four Harry ten-shillings in French crowns" if he would stand his friend, and when sir John was informed thereof, he said to Bullcalf, "I will have none of you." Justice Shallow remonstrated, but Falstaff exclaimed, "Will you tell me, master Shallow, how to choose a man? Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature?... Give me the spirit, master Shallow."--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry IV_. act iii. sc. 2 (1598). BULL-DOGS, the two servants of a university proctor, who follow him in his rounds to assist him in apprehending students who are violating the university statutes, such as appearing in the streets after dinner without cap and gown, etc. BULLET-HEAD (_The Great_), George Cadoudal, leader of the Chouans (1769-1804). BULL´SEGG (_Mr._), laird of Killancureit, a friend of the baron of Bradwardine.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). BULMER (_Valentine_), titular earl of Etherington, married to Clara Mowbray. _Mrs. Ann Bulmer_, mother of Valentine, married to the earl of Etherington during the life-time of his countess; hence his wife in bigamy.--Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan's Well_ (time, George III.). BUM´BLE, beadle of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was born and brought up. A stout, consequential, hard-hearted, fussy official, with mighty ideas of his own importance. This character has given to the language the word _bumbledom_, the officious arrogance and bumptious conceit of a parish authority or petty dignitary. After marriage the high-and-mighty beadle was sadly henpecked and reduced to a Jerry Sneak.--C. Dickens, _Oliver Twist_ (1837). BUM'KINET, a shepherd. He proposes to Grub'binol that they should repair to a certain hut and sing "Gillian of Croydon," "Patient Grissel," "Cast away Care," "Over the Hills," and so on; but being told that Blouzelinda was dead, he sings a dirge, and Grubbinol joins him. Thus wailed the louts in melancholy strain, Till bonny Susan sped across the plain; They seized the lass in apron clean arrayed, And to the ale-house forced the willing maid; In ale and kisses they forgot their cares, And Susan Blouzelinda's loss repairs. Gay, _Pastoral_, v. (1714). (An imitation of Virgil's _Ecl_. v. "Daphnis.") BUMPER (_Sir Harry_), a convivial friend of Charles Surface. He sings the popular song, beginning-- Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, Here's to the widow of fifty, etc. Sheridan, _School for Scandal_ (1777). BUMPPO (_Natty_), the Leather Stocking of Cooper's _Pioneers_; Hawk-Eye of _The Last of the Mohicans_; the Deer Slayer and the Pathfinder of the novels of those names; and the trapper of _The Prairie_, in which his death is recorded. A white man who has lived so long with Indians as to surpass them in skill and cunning, retains native nobility of character, and in his countenance "an open honesty and total absence of guile" that inspires trust.