Next week's quotations (June 11th to 17th), are as follows:
1. …Then began a game of blind man's buff around and between the fires,
whereof Khuruk Shah has sung in verse that will not die…They tickled him
gently under the armpit with the knife point. He leaped aside, screaming,
only to feel a cold blade drawn lightly over the back of his neck, or a
rifle muzzle rubbing his beard. He called upon his adherents to aid him, but
most of these lay dead…
2. '… I come of land-holding stock …It were a disgrace to me to go to the
public scaffold: therefore I take this way. Be it remembered that the
Sahib's shirts are correctly enumerated, and that there is an extra piece of
soap in his washbasin. My child was bewitched, and I slew the wizard. Why
should you seek to slay me with the rope ?'
3. '…And I, being still blinded by her beauty for, O my friend, the women of
the Abazai are very fair, said: "Hast thou no fear ?". And she answered
"None, but for the fear that I do not die". Then, said I, "Have no fear".
And she bowed her head, and I smote it off at the neckbone, so that it
leaped between my feet…'
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The sources of last week's quotations (June 4th to 10th) were as follows:
1. 'The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly' in 'Plain Tales from the Hills'
2. 'Judson and the Empire' in 'Many Inventions'
3. 'The Man who would be King' in 'Wee Willie Winkie'
Good wishes to all, John R
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