Here are the quotations for this week (May 7th to 13th):
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 enemies feet and brought
them down …'
The sources of last week’s extracts (April 30th to May 6th) are as follows:
1. (…The old Tower musket went off with a bang, and a young buffalo
bellowed in pain…) This is from "Tiger! Tiger!" in The Jungle Book.
2. (…There were seven native policemen in Tibasu, and four crazy
smooth-bore muskets among them…) This is from "His Chance in Life", in
Plain Tales from the Hills.
3. (…I had seen the equipment of the infantry. One-third of it was an old
muzzle-loading fowling piece…) This is from "Namgay Doola" in Life's
Handicap
Good wishes to all
John R
PS The latest additions to the NRG are: notes by Lisa Lewis on "The Crab
that played with the Sea", the tenth of the Just So Stories, by John
McGivering on "The Lang Men o' Larut", the twelfth story in Life's
Handicap, by Alastair Wilson on "The Devil and the Deep Sea" from The
Day's Work, and by David Page on a further story in Abaft the Funnel, "A
Fallen Idol".
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