Here are the quotations for the coming week (May 24-30th):
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 (May 17th -23rd) afre as follows:
1. (...They clawed, they slapped, they fled, leaving behind them a trophy
of banners and brasses...) This is from "The Vortex" in A Diversity of
Creatures.
2. (...he heard a sound as though all the earth were humming...) This is
from "Red Dog" in the Second Jungle Book.
3. (...the old Queen cried the swarming cry,..) This is from "The Mother
Hive" in Actions and Reactions.
Good wishes to all
John R
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