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Afghanistan Ajmir Amir Amir's apron Army Bashkai beggar Bombay brings him food called camels caravan Carne Carnehan carriage Chief cold Contrack Daniel Dravot Degumber Devil Dravot says drill dumb show Encyclopædia English eyes Fellow Craft fight fires Ghorband girl give Gods gone South Gord's Grand-Master guns half HARVARD COLLEGE head horns hundred Imbra India Intermediate Jagdallak Kabul King of Kafiristan knew lingo loafers Lodge look Lord's sake mad priest maps Martini Marwar Junction matchlocks Mhow miracle morning mountains mules native never night old Peachey paper Peachey Taliaferro Peshawar pine wood rags Rajputana red beard rifles road rope-bridges round RUDYARD KIPLING says Billy Fish says Daniel says Dravot Serai shake hands sleep snow stone talk tell temple there's things took turned turquoises twenty valley village waiting walked week whirligig whiskey wife women
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Page 30 - I led from the press-room to the stifling office with the maps on the walls, and the red-haired man rubbed his hands. "That's something like," said he. "This was the proper shop to come to. Now, Sir, let me introduce to you Brother Peachey Carnehan, that's him, and Brother Daniel Dravot, that is me, and the less said about our professions the better, for we have been most things in our time. Soldier, sailor, compositor, photographer, proofreader, street-preacher, and correspondents of the Backwoodsman...
Page 2 - Budget, which necessitated travelling, not Second-class, which is only half as dear as Firstclass, but by Intermediate, which is very awful indeed. There are no cushions in the Intermediate class, and the population are either Intermediate, which is Eurasian, or native, which for a long night journey is nasty, or Loafer, which is amusing though intoxicated. Intermediates do not buy from refreshment-rooms.
Page 71 - That's all right,' says he. Then he and Carnehan takes the big boss of each village by the arm and walks them down into the valley, and shows them how to scratch a line with a spear right down the valley, and gives each a sod of turf from both sides o" the line. Then all the people comes down and shouts like the devil and all, and Dravot says: 'Go and dig the land, and be fruitful and multiply,' which they did, though they didn't understand.
Page 26 - It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the windows, and the all but naked compositors wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and called for water. The thing that was keeping us back, whatever it was, would not come off, though the loo...
Page 104 - says Dravot. "I said wife — a queen to breed a King's son for the King. A Queen out of the strongest tribe, that'll make them your bloodbrothers, and that'll lie by your side and tell you all the people thinks about you and their own affairs. That's what I want." '"Do you remember that Bengali woman I kept at Mogul Serai when I was a plate-layer?" says I. "A fat lot o
Page 134 - I waited to hear no more, but put the poor wretch into my carriage and drove him off to the nearest missionary for eventual transfer to the Asylum. He repeated the hymn twice while he was with me whom he did not in the least recognise, and I left him singing it to the missionary.
Page 130 - They was cruel enough to feed him up in the temple, because they said he was more of a God than old Daniel that was a man. Then they turned him out on the snow, and told him to go home, and Peachey came home in about a year, begging along the roads quite safe; for Daniel Dravot he walked before and said : — ' Come along, Peachey. It's a big thing we're doing.
Page 17 - Did he say that I was to give you anything? 'Cause I won't." "He didn't," I said, and dropped away and watched the red lights die out in the dark. It was horribly cold because the wind was blowing off the sands. I climbed into my own train — not an Intermediate Carriage this time — and went to sleep. If the man with the beard had given me a rupee I should have kept it as a memento of a rather curious affair. But the consciousness of having done my duty was my only reward. Later on I reflected...
Page 31 - Soldier, sailor, compositor, photographer, proof-reader, street-preacher, and correspondents of the Backwoodsman when we thought the paper wanted one. Carnehan is sober, and so am I. Look at us first, and see that's sure. It will save you cutting into my talk. We'll take one of your cigars apiece, and you shall see us light up.