He still had some Pride Paws left over, so he began trading them for things.
Yet, on balance, India can look back with some pride at 50 years of democracy.
And then, a few querulous sessions later, I began to feel some pride, and not simply in my improved performance.
Today, the academic scores are still below average, but the classrooms are peaceful and the kids seem to now take some pride in the school.
But they at least salvaged some pride after their embarrassing 60-4 fifth-round exit to Warrington in this season's Challenge Cup at the Galpharm just two weeks ago.
The Canaries' board has yet to decide if the trio will remain in charge next season, but Butterworth wants the chance to restore some pride at the club.
Trick-or-treaters like you and me, your kids and mine, and members of civic groups like Key Club, can feel some pride that we have helped make this happen.
He will hope to depart Ibrox with some pride restored - further progress in the Champions League and second place in the league would go some way towards that.
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On the road back to Rio, we stop underneath a spectacular old iron railway bridge - "the first curved iron bridge in the world, " Mauricio informs me, with some pride.
Hearts regained some pride with a 2-0 victory over the Croatians at Tynecastle on Thursday night but were unable to overturn the four-goal deficit from the first leg in Zagreb.
Bees switched netminders at the start of the third period and Joe Ciccarello helped restore some pride for the visitors with a pair of goals in the 46th and 49th minutes.
"We have two games left so if we can win both of those we can salvage some pride and give ourselves something to work with back in England this summer, " he added.
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Jenson Button's miserable weekend looked set to continue as he drifted from 14th to 17th, although he salvaged some pride with a credible eighth-place finish, holding off a late surge from teammate Sergio Perez to finish behind Paul di Resta.
Now consider, if I have some pride in being Texan, with less than 200 years of history, proud as it is, what is it like to be Greek or Irish or French or German or any of the European mix?
With the club's future off the pitch still unclear as owner Mike Ashley continues his search for a buyer, Kinnear will look to restore some pride on it after five straight defeats since Keegan's departure at the beginning of September.
There was no shame for the Tigers in losing their opening game to India, and they salvaged some pride by following this with a victory, albeit unconvincing, over Ireland - but they capitulated here in front of a large but increasingly disconsolate home support.
Incidentally, I can observe with some pride and satisfaction, that Compania de Minas Buenaventura ( BVN) was among the anointed few mining stocks to outpace the gold price for the 5-year period and the only one to beat it during the last two years as well.
There is a widely held view that for a team to head off into a brave new direction, new leadership is essential and if Clarke and Australia perform well enough to salvage some pride and reputation here, Ponting could well find himself eased out of his job in Test cricket, at least.
If we ever thought about "American football" at all, we thought about all that protective gear and considered it a source of some pride that the average English football fan was in more physical danger on his way to the toilets (we called them that) at halftime than a roly-poly lineman in a scrimmage.
"It is my fervent hope that we can harness some of that unity and some of that pride to confront some of the many challenges that we still face, " he said.
On Sunday, Kuznetsova had to dig in for her win as world number 29 Medina Garrigues tried to salvage some home pride on clay at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.
SingTel would rescue some of its pride, and get a share of Time dotCom, which has laid 3, 600 kms. of optical fiber through the length and breadth of peninsular Malaysia -- Singapore's hinterland.
And it's not just about the cash: Some fans say "Pride and Prejudice" has changed their life.
They still wanted Mr Dornbusch, albeit at some small cost to their pride, to show them the way.
Many of the areas where I am taken don't look particularly bad: just row of after row of shotgun housing, some cared for with loving pride, others more dilapidated.
Some 70% of people express pride that Britain had an empire, and 60% say they regret its passing.
"Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English, " he said.
Guilt, jealousy, pride and fear are just some of the emotions created in this kind of workplace, and at home.
European papers express surprise, some unease but also a sense of pride after the European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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