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Here are the quotations for next week (May 4th to 10th): 1. .And reap his old reward, The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard - The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah slowly !) towards the light:- "Why brought ye us from bondage, "Our loved Egyptian night ?" 2. ...No indeed! We are not strong, But we know Peoples that are. Yes, and we'll guide them along To smash and destroy you in War ! We shall be slaves just the same? Yes, we have always been slaves, But you - you will die of the shame, And then we shall dance on your graves ! 3. .'Who art thou, seller of dog's flesh . to talk of terms and treaties? Get hence to the hills - go, and wait there starving, till it shall please the Government to call thy people out for punishment - children and fools that ye be ! Count your dead and be still. Rest assured that the Government will send you a man ! 'Ay,' returned Khoda Dad Khan, ' for we also be men.' As he looked Tallantire between the eyes, he added, 'And by God Sahib, may thou be that man !' The sources of last week's Antipodean extracts (April 27th to May 3rd) were as follows: 1. (...He ran through the desert; he ran through the mountains; he ran through the salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds...) This is from "The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo" in Just So Stories. 2. (... 'I drank hot tea and ate mutton, while now and then a hot wind, like the loo of the Punjab, boomed out of the emptiness. A hard land, it seemed to me...') This is from Something of Myself, recalling RK's visit to Australia in 1891. 3. (...'he'd ridden, driven - what's the word ? - conducted sheep for his father for thousands of miles on end, months an' months at a time, alone with these black fellers...') This is from "A Friend of the Family" in Debits and Credits. Good wishes to all, John R PS You may like to note that we now have notes on thirteen of the fourteen 'Stalky' stories and sixteen of the Plain Tales from the Hills up on the New Readers' Guide pages of the web-site, together with the first two Barrack-Room Ballads, notes on thirteen other poems, and the text of over 150 poems.