Tim is right.
If you look at the mailbase archive you will see
correspondance in March/April 2001 and again in June
2002. This shows that RK used the phrase in 'The Story
of the Gadsbys' but did not originate it.
With best regards
David Page
Harrow UK
--- "Connell, Tim" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
**Haven't we had this one before? The Buffs are/were
> the East Kent Regiment,
> which at one time claimed to be the longest serving
> in the British Army,
> having been raised in around 1687. I don't know
> whether Kipling ever used
> the phrase, but I suspect it has more to do with the
> lengthy history of the
> regiment (which I think is now part of the Queen's
> Regiment.)
>
> Tim Connell
>
> (Man of Kent...)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m healy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 26 May 2004 18:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Quotation?
>
>
> On the slightly down-market quiz programme The Write
> Stuff on Radio 4 it was
> said that RK originated the phrase 'Steady the
> Buffs!'. Surely not?
> Moichael Healy
>
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