Quotations
Here are next week’s quotations (Oct 15th to 21st)
1. 'But though we were dead-tired, we did not forget to go to the Boy’s
rooms and put away his revolver with the proper amount of cartridges in the
pouch. Also to set his writing-case on the table. We found the Colonel and
reported the death, feeling more like murderers than ever.'
2. 'The exploded shell of an old brown cartridge dropped out of one of the
pockets and rolled at my feet. Gunga Dass had not seen it; and I fell to
thinking that a man does not carry exploded cartridge-cases, especially
‘browns,’ which will not bear loading twice, about with him when shooting.
In other words, that cartridge-case had been fired inside the crater.'
3. '...He shouted wanst or twice, an’ thin I heard him say: "They shud ha’
got the range long ago. Maybe they’ll fire at the flash." Thin he fired
again, an’ that dhrew a fresh volley, and the long slugs thay they chew in
their teeth came floppin’ among the rocks like tree-toads of a hot night...'
The sources of last week’s quotations (Oct 8th to 14th) were as follows:
1. ‘A Conference of the Powers’ in ‘Many Inventions’
2. ‘Miss Youghal’s Sais’ in ‘Plain Tales from the Hills’
3. ‘In the Interests of the Brethren’ in ‘Debits and Credits’.
Good wishes to all, John Radcliffe
PS If you are replying to this note, could you please email to my regular
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address which I am using this week.
PS2 We have just been asked by Hull Reference Library (see note below- if
the following lines come from a poem by RK. I think the answer is almost
certainly ‘no’ but has anyone any other thoughts, or a positive
identification ? It sounds to me like something from a Victorian ballad or
recitation, but not RK !
‘One of our readers wants to know which poem the following quotation comes
from. We think that it might possibly be Rudyard Kipling. If it is, could
you confirm and tell us the title of the piece of poetry. Thanks.’
“Far away in distant India,
Far over the burning sand,
Stands a soldier lad on duty,
Dreaming of his native land.”
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