The Poem on the Ladies is a real classic, thank you.
Can you help with the meaning of a Jemadar-sais?
It sounds to me like someone who looks after the horses, But!!!?
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At 07:37 PM 3/24/99 -0500, Charles Sligh wrote:
>The query about "The Ladies," the poem with the refrain
>"An' I learned about women from 'er!" was pretty easy to
>track down. I knew of the poem via the ultimate chapter of
>Byron Farwell's _Mr. Kipling's Army_, which uses another
>line as a title: "The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady."
>
>Best,
>Charles Sligh
>
>THE LADIES
>
>I've taken my fun where I've found it;
>I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time;
>I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweethearts,
>An' four o' the lot was prime.
>One was an 'arf-caste widow,
>One was a woman at Prome,
>One was the wife of a jemadar-sais,
>An' one is a girl at 'ome.
[snip]
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