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Page 66
... Ortheris and Learoyd are Privates in B Company of a Line Regiment , and personal friends of mine . Collectively I think , but am not certain , they are the worst men in the regiment so far as genial black- guardism goes . They told me ...
... Ortheris and Learoyd are Privates in B Company of a Line Regiment , and personal friends of mine . Collectively I think , but am not certain , they are the worst men in the regiment so far as genial black- guardism goes . They told me ...
Page 67
... Ortheris interrupted . papers ? " said he . " Sometimes , " I said . " ' Ave you read the " We ' ad read the papers , an ' we put hup a faked decoity , a - a sedukshun . " ' Abdukshin , ye cockney , " said Mulvaney . " Abdukshun or ...
... Ortheris interrupted . papers ? " said he . " Sometimes , " I said . " ' Ave you read the " We ' ad read the papers , an ' we put hup a faked decoity , a - a sedukshun . " ' Abdukshin , ye cockney , " said Mulvaney . " Abdukshun or ...
Page 69
... Ortheris took up the tale : - " Jist then , little Buldoo kim up , ' oo was the son of one of the Artillery Saises - ' e would ' av made a ' evinly newspaper - boy in London , bein ' sharp and fly to all man- ner o ' games . ' E ' ad ...
... Ortheris took up the tale : - " Jist then , little Buldoo kim up , ' oo was the son of one of the Artillery Saises - ' e would ' av made a ' evinly newspaper - boy in London , bein ' sharp and fly to all man- ner o ' games . ' E ' ad ...
Page 70
... [ Ortheris was growing poetical under the influence of the beer . The duet recommenced ; Mulvaney leading again . ] " Thin we heard Bhuldoo , the dacoit , shoutin ' to the hekka man , an ' wan of the young divils brought his lakri down on ...
... [ Ortheris was growing poetical under the influence of the beer . The duet recommenced ; Mulvaney leading again . ] " Thin we heard Bhuldoo , the dacoit , shoutin ' to the hekka man , an ' wan of the young divils brought his lakri down on ...
Page 71
... Ortheris , slowly , with immense pride : - " ' E sez : -You har my noble preservers , ' sez ' e . ' You har a honor to the Br Harmy , ' sez ' e . With that ' e describes the hawful bat of decoits wot set on ' im . There was about forty ...
... Ortheris , slowly , with immense pride : - " ' E sez : -You har my noble preservers , ' sez ' e . ' You har a honor to the Br Harmy , ' sez ' e . With that ' e describes the hawful bat of decoits wot set on ' im . There was about forty ...
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Aloud asked Aunty Rosa ayah bhoy Black Sheep bloomin Bobby Bremmil Bronckhorst Buldoo called CAPT Carnehan Colonel Coppy dead dear devil divil Dravot eyes face fool fwhat Gadsby girl give gone Gunga Gurkhas half hand Hauksbee Havildar head heard heart horse India Jakin Janki Judy Kafiristan kape Kitty knew Lalun laughed Learoyd Lispeth look Majesty the King Mamma married Marwar Miss Biddums Mulvaney Nafferton native never night niver once orf'cer Ortheris ould Peshawar Pinecoffin Pluffles Punch Ram Dass Reggie Regiment rickshaw rifle river round rupees Sahib Sargint sick Simla Sorr Subaltern Suddhoo talk tell There's thim things told took trouble turned Twas veranda voice Wali Dad walked Wee Willie Winkie whin wife wint woman Youghal young
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Page 502 - Singing and murmuring in her feastful mirth, Joying to feel herself alive, Lord over Nature, Lord of the visible earth, Lord of the senses five ; Communing with herself : ' All these are mine, And let the world have peace or wars, Tis one to me.
Page 153 - A MAN should, whatever happens, keep to his own caste, race and breed. Let the White go to the White and the Black to the Black.
Page 16 - Some — there are losses in every trade — Will break their hearts ere bitted and made, Will fight like fiends as the rope cuts hard, And die dumb-mad in the breaking-yard.
Page 597 - BAA BAA, BLACK SHEEP BAA BAA, BLACK SHEEP Baa Baa, Black Sheep, Have you any wool ? Yes, Sir, yes, Sir, three bags full.
Page 630 - Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 546 - I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom — army, law-courts, revenue, and policy all complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.
Page 551 - I want a hundred lady's cards printed at once, please," which is manifestly part of an Editor's duty; and every dissolute ruffian that ever tramped the Grand Trunk Road makes it his business to ask for employment as a proofreader. And, all the time, the telephone-bell is ringing madly, and Kings are being killed on the Continent, and Empires are saying— "You're another...
Page 572 - Then he bangs the butt of his gun for a gavel and says: 'By virtue of the authority vested in me by my own right hand and the help of Peachey, I declare myself Grand-Master of all Freemasonry in Kafiristan in this the Mother Lodge o...
Page 574 - em among the men that the Chiefs sent in to me to drill. Dravot was too busy to attend to those things, but the old Army that we first made helped me, and we turned out five hundred men that could drill, and two hundred that knew how to hold arms pretty straight. Even those corkscrewed, hand-made guns was a miracle to them. Dravot talked big about powder-shops and factories, walking up and down in the pine wood when the winter was coming on. " 'I won't make a Nation,
Page 607 - Eat, drink and die, for we are souls bereaved: Of all the creatures under heaven's wide cope We are most hopeless, who had once most hope, And most beliefless, that had most believed.