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...ce of being on a shelf half-way up the wooded mountainside; and as it is remote and isolated, and very white, it makes a strong mark against the lofty... ... when I was all fixed for triumph I was confronted by a bitter dis- appointment; there was no guide tied to the rope, it was only a very indignant old... ...the hate in those cruel eyes; I remember how I drooped my head upon my breast, I feel again the sudden earthquake shock in my rear, administered by th... ...re had planted in the breast of that treacherous beast. The grace which eloquence had failed to work in those men’s hearts, had been wrought by a laug... ...soon as he had placed a half-mile between himself and us. To avert suspicion, he had judged it best that the line should continue to move; so he caugh... ...ry around, in a country where they haven’t the checking system for luggage, that I finally set to work, and learned the German language. Also! Es freu... ...hat I finally set to work, and learned the German language. Also! Es freut mich dass dies so ist, denn es muss, in ein haupts:achlich degree, h:oflich... ...! Also! Sie mu”ssen so 335 A Tramp Abroad freundlich sein, und verzeih mich die interlarding von ein oder zwei Englischer Worte, hie und da, denn ich... ...y got anything to say, you’ve got to draw on a language that can stand the strain. Wenn haber man kann nicht meinem Rede Verstehen, so werde ich ihm s...

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...- hind my shoulder:— “Sahib! Sahib! Do you not know me? Sahib, it is Gunga Dass, the telegraph-master.” I spun round quickly and faced the speaker. Gu... ..., the telegraph-master.” I spun round quickly and faced the speaker. Gunga Dass, (I have, of course, no hesitation in mention- ing the man’s real name... ... responsible I should never have known him. But it was in- dubitably Gunga Dass, and—for this I was thank-full—an English-speaking native who might at... ... in a bright glow, and the crow was nearly spitted in front thereof, Gunga Dass began without a word of preamble: “There are only two kinds of men, Sa... ...nd I burst into a loud fit of laughter. The contrast was too absurd! Gunga Dass, as he bent over the unclean bird, watched me curiously. Hindus seldom... ...nd I knew, lying where I was, that there was a galley coming up bow-on, to ram us on the left side. I could just lift up my head and see her sail over... ...l the face of the stone under water was covered with wood to pre- vent our ram getting chipped when the tide made us rock.” “That’s curious. Our hero ...

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... more honour in being rammed, you know. Then I knew all about it. It was a ram. We opened out. I am not exaggerating—we opened out, sir, like a card- ... ...ttin’ at ut my own way, as Popp Doggle said whin they found him thrying to ram a cartridge down the muzzle. Orth’ris, fall away!’ He released the litt... ...ick up his horses upon the road to Delhi, for it is said that the Bombay T ram- way Company are buying horses there by the truck-load; eight horses to... ... still in the Police? I will speak true talk. An evil came to the Thana—to Ram Baksh, the Havildar, and Maula Baksh, and Juggut Ram and Bhim Singh and... ...he Havildar, and Maula Baksh, and Juggut Ram and Bhim Singh and Suruj Bul. Ram Baksh is in the jail for a space, and so also is Maula Baksh. It was at... ...e born of one birth, but I swear to you that I was born the first, and Ram Dass is the younger by three full breaths. The astrologer said so, and it i... ...trologer said so, and it is written in my horoscope—the horoscope of Durga Dass. But we were alike—I and my brother who is a beast with- out honour—so... ...th- out honour—so alike that none knew, together or apart, which was Durga Dass. I am a Mahajun of Pali in Marwar, and an honest man. This is true tal... ...ig well where the Governor’s camp draws water. But 196 Soldiers Three Ram Dass, who is without truth, made quarrel with me, and we were divided. He t...

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...e the Five of Diamonds on the whitewash between the upper windows. Bhagwan Dass, the bunnia, and a man who says he gets his living by seal-cutting, li... ...s settled down to a most respectable life somewhere near Bareilly. Bhagwan Dass is an extortionate and an adulter- ator. He is very rich. The man who ... .... The man who pretended to cut seals was the cleverest of them all—Bhagwan Dass only knew how to lie—except Janoo. She was also beautiful, but that wa... ...t tell, do anything, or get anything done, because I am in debt to Bhagwan Dass the bunnia for two gold rings and a heavy anklet. I must get my food f... ...She was in a blue dress, and she lifted the veil of her bonnet and said:— ’Ram Dass, give my salaams to the Sahib, and tell him that I shall meet him ... ... was afraid.” 177 Rudyard Kipling What Dumoise said or did I do not know. Ram Dass de- clares that he said nothing, but walked up and down the ve- ra... ...nd, next day, he went on to Simla cross-questioning the bearer every hour. Ram Dass could only say that he had met Mrs. Dumoise and that she had lifte... ...e message which he had faithfully repeated to Dumoise. To this state- ment Ram Dass adhered. He did not know where Nuddea was, had no friends at Nudde... ...end of his bachelor days, what had happened at Bagi; and the man said that Ram Dass might as well have chosen T uticorin while he was about it. At tha...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...endered with so much more poetic comprehension, and he, like his favourite Ram Dass, had a fire in his belly so much more hotly burning than the paten... ...red with so much more poetic comprehension, and he, like his favourite Ram Dass, had a fire in his belly so much more hotly burning than the patent re...