Here are the quotations for this week (August 5th to 11th):
1. ...'In those days I rode seventy miles with an English mem-sahib and her
babe on my saddle-bow...I placed them in safety, and back came I to my
officer - the one that was not killed of our five. "Give me work", said I,
"for I am an outcast among my own kin, and my cousin's blood is wet on my
sabre". "Be content", said he. "There is great work forward" ...
2. ... The paper is yellow with years and dirt, but on the back of it you
can still read a pencil note by John Lawrence...'See that the two native
officers who remained loyal are not deprived of their estates'...
3. ...'the season I think of, the river was low, smooth, and even, and, as
the Gavial had warned me, the dead English came down, touching each other. I
got my girth in that season - my girth and my depth ...by Allahabad one lay
still in the slack-water and let twenty go by to pick one; and above all the
English were not cumbered by nose-rings and anklets as my women are
nowadays...
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The sources of last week's quotations were:
1. 'The Spring Running' from the Second Jungle Book
2. 'Young Men at the Manor' from 'Puck of Pook's Hill
3. 'Brother Square-toes' from 'Rewards and Fairies'
Good wishes to all, John R
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