Head Groom, I presume, but does Jemadar mean something more specific ? Can
anyone give Ron C-D a more authoritative answer ? John R
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Clibborn-Dyer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Charles L. Sligh <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Kipling <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: Kipling: "The Ladies"
>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.
>
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