From: Sheila Radcliffe for John Radcliffe
To: Rudyard Kipling Mailbase
Subject: Quotes
Here are the quotes for next week (26th Aug to 1st Sept)
1. …Three bold and experienced men - cool, confident, and dry when they
began; white, quivering, and wet when they finished their trick at those
terrible wheels - swung her over the great lift from Albuquerque to
Glorietta and beyond Springer, up and up to the Raton Tunnel on the State
line, whence they dropped rocking into La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw,
and tore down the long slope to Dodge City …
2. He scratched with a twig on the earth. 'Look ! They should have come in
by Srinagar or Abbotabad. Thatt is their short road - down the rive by Bunji
and Astor. But they have made mischief in the West. So ' - he drew a furrow
from left to right - 'they march and they march away East to Leh (ah! it is
cold there) and down the Indus to Hanle … and then down, you see, to Bushahr
and Chini valley…
3. 'We went on – forty, fifty miles a day, for days on end – we three
braves. And how a great tall Indian a-horseback can carry his war bonnet at
a canter through thick timber without brushing a feather beats me ! My
silly head was banged often enough by low branches, but they slipped through
like running elks…'
The sources of last week's quotations (19th to 25th August) were as follows:
All are from 'Life's Handicap'
1. 'Little Tobrah'
2. 'Through the fire'
3. 'At the end of the passage'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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