On 24 Mar 2003 at 18:31, Bryan Diamond wrote:
> In The Times of Sat 22 March, p4, there was a news item by Major Charles
> Heyman (editor of "Jane's World Armies") including :
> At some stage in the day, as Kipling wrote, you are almost certainly going
> to "face the angry bullets as they come kicking through" the dust";
> he refers again to those angry bullets that might result in swift death, and
> "face the angry bullets" is in the headline.
>
> I do not recall the quote, where is it from?
I think he's misremembering two lines from "The 'Eathen",
"An' now the hugly bullets come peckin' through the dust,
An' no one wants to face 'em, but every beggar must...".
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