Here are the quotations for this week (May 5th to 11th):
1. '…the whole country was humming with dacoits. I used to send out spies,
and act on their information. As soon as a man came in and told me of a gang
in hiding, I'd take thirty men with some grub, and go and look for them,
while the other subaltern lay doggo in camp'…
2. ...'I will therefore stay among you till I see that Smallpox is
conquered, and I will not go away until the men and the women and the litle
children show me upon their arms such marks as I have even now showed you. I
bring with me two very good guns, and a man whose name is known among beasts
and men. We will hunt together, I and he and your young men '…
3. ...It had been the merest nervous flick of an exasperated boy, but quite
enough to forfeit his commission, since it had been dealt in anger to a
volunteer and no pressed man, who could not under the rules of the service
reply...
The sources of last week’s quotations (April 28th to May 4th) were as
follows:
1. (“The…paper in its locked formes lay on a stone-topped table, a proof by
the side…”) This is from ‘Stalky & Co’.
2. (“… Keller was insolent with joy. He was going to cable from Southampton
to the New York World, mail his account to America on the same day…”) This
is from 'A Matter of Fact' in 'Many Inventions'.
3. (“.....It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat
there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the
windows…”) This is from 'The Man who would be King' in 'Wee Willie Winkie'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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