...coloured tag-rag and bobtail of an old-fashioned Hindu Court. But as Purun Dass grew up he felt that the old order of things was changing, and that if... ...o was suspicious of the English, their railways and telegraphs—died, Purun Dass stood high with his young successor, who had been tutored by an En- gl... ...s take up English progress altogether, for they will not believe, as Purun Dass showed he did, that what was good for the Englishman must be twice as ... ...o the priests when he came back; for even so high-caste a Brahmin as Purun Dass lost caste by crossing 23 Rudyard Kipling the black sea. In London he... ...bbons and enamel; and at the same ceremony, while the cannon boomed, Purun Dass was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire; so that... ...as the heavy swell took and shook and spouted between them. This battering-ram ice was, so to speak, the first army that the sea was flinging against ...

...thus, then, do we beat dogs when we are men. Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” He beat Shere Khan over the head with ... ...trength and weight of his body. If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind li... ...ome years ago. “And 55 I know that this is true,” he said, “because Purun Dass always limped from the blow that he got in a riot when his account boo...