The quotations for the coming week (April 1st to 7th) are as follows:
1. 'Hicksey and I were thick as thieves. He had some Burma mounted police -
rummy chaps, armed with sword and snider carbine. They rode punchy Burma
ponies with string stirrups, red cloth saddles, and red bell-rope
head-stalls. Hicksey used to lend me six or eight of them when I asked him -
nippy little devils, keen as mustard…'
2. . '…whether they tuk us, all white an' wet, for a new breed av divil, or
a new kind of dacoit, I don't know. They ran as though we was both, an' we
wint into them, baynit an' butt, shrikin' wid laughin'. '
3. There was a rush from without, the short hough-hough of the stabbing
spears, and a man on a horse, followed by thirty or forty others, dashed
through, yelling and hacking. The right flank of the square sucked in after
them, and the other sides sent help. The wounded, who knew that they had but
a few hours more to live, caught at the enemy's feet and brought them
down …'
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The sources of last week's quotations (March 25th to 31st) were:
1. 'Namgay Doola' in 'Life's Handicap'
2. 'The Miracle of Purun Baghat' in the Second Jungle Book
3. 'A Wayside Comedy' in 'Under the Deodars' within 'Wee Willie Winkie and
other Stories'.
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All good wishes, John Radcliffe
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