Here are the quotations for the current week (jan 30th to Feb 5th)

1. ..."Malachi, my son, are you well ?" sez I, "for I am not". At that he
trumpeted again till the Pass rang to ut, an' the other elephants tuk it up
... He was on his knees in a minut an' he slung me up as gentle as a girl.
"Go on now, my son" I sez. "You're blockin' the road". He fetched one more
joyous toot, an' swung grand out av the head av the Tangi, his gun-gear
clankin' on his back; an' at the back av him there was the most amazin'
shout I iver heard..."

2. ...a rebounding beam had pricked him. He needed only this to unchain his
full strength, for of all things in the Jungle, the wild elephant enraged is
the most wantonly destructive. He kicked backward at a mud wall that
crumbeld at the stroke, and, crumbling, melted to yellow mud under the
torrents of rain. The he wheeled and squealed and tore through the narrow
streets, leaning against the huts right and left, shivering the crazy doors,
and crumpling up the eves; while his three sons raged behind him...

3. ... an elephant who will not work, and is not tied up, is not quite so
manageable as an eighty-one ton gun loose in a heavy sea-way. He slapped old
friends on the back, and asked them if the stumps were coming away easily;
he talked nonsense concerning labour and the inalienable rights of elephants
to a long 'nooning'; and wandering to and fro, thoroughly demoralised the
garden till sundown, when he returned to his pickets for food...

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And, as a number of people have pointed out, here are the sources of our
last set of quotations: (Jan 23rd to 29th)

1. ...The riderless pony brought the news to the 195th, though there had
been consternation in the Colonel's household for an hour before... is from
'Wee Willie Winkie'

2. ...The Afghan forces were upon the run - the run of wearied wolves who
snarl and bite over their shoulders... is from 'The Drums of the Fore and
Aft' in 'Wee Wllie Winkie'

3. ... 'That was on the bad-water shop where I played when we came up here.
The boy who would not sell me the parrot for six annas told me that a
one-eyed man had come here and drunk the bad waters and gone mad...' is from
'The Son of his Father', in 'Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides'.

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Best regards to all

John Radcliffe


PS  If you are searching for particular books which are out of print, may I
commend the three networks of antiquarian booksellers for which I have just
put up links on the site. They have enabled me to track down a number of
long sought titles.





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