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CAPT. G. (Nervously.) It’s much too soon. Let’s light up! Let’s have a peg! Let’s— CAPT. M. Let’s make bally asses of ourselves! BELLS. (Without.)— ‘Good—peo—ple—all To prayers—we call.” CAPT. M. There go the bells! Come on—unless you’d rather not. (They ride off.) BELLS.— ‘We honour the King And Brides joy do bring— Good tidings we tell, And ring the Dead’s knell.’ CAPT. G. (Dismounting at the door of the Church.) I say, <strong>Soldiers</strong> <strong>Three</strong> 122 aren’t we much too soon? There are no end of people inside. I say, aren’t we much too late? Stick by me, Jack! What the devil do I do? CAPT. M. Strike an attitude at the head of the aisle and wait for Her. (G. groans as M. wheels him into position before three hundred eyes.) CAPT. M. (Imploringly.) Gaddy, if you love me, for pity’s sake, for the Honour of the Regiment, stand up! Chuck yourself into your uniform! Look like a man! I’ve got to speak to the Padre a minute. (G. breaks into a gentle perspiration.) If you wipe your face I’ll never be your best man again. Stand up! (G. trembles visibly.) CAPT. M. (Returning.) She’s coming now. Look out when the music starts. There’s the organ beginning to clack. Bride steps out of ‘rickshaw at Church door. G. catches a glimpse of her and takes heart.
ORGAN.— ‘The Voice that breathed o’er Eden, That earliest marriage day, The primal marriage-blessing, It hath not passed away.’ CAPT. M. (Watching G.) By Jove! He is looking well. ‘Didn’t think he had it in him. CAPT. G. How long does this hymn go on for? CAPT. M. It will be over directly. (Anxiously.) Beginning to bleach and gulp? Hold on, Gaddy, and think o’ the Regiment. CAPT. G. (Measuredly.) I say, there’s a big brown lizard crawling up that wall. CAPT. M. My Sainted Mother! The last stage of collapse! Rudyard Kipling 123 Bride comes up to left of altar, lifts her eyes once to G. who is suddenly smitten mad. CAPT. G. (To himself again and again.) Little Featherweight’s a woman—a woman! And I thought she was a little girl. CAPT. M. (In a whisper.) Form the halt—inward wheel. CAPT. G. obeys mechanically and the ceremony proceeds. PADRE. . . . only unto her as long as ye both shall live? CAPT. G. (His throat useless.) Ha-hmmm! CAPT. M. Say you will or you won’t. There’s no second deal here. Bride gives response with perfect coolness, and is given away by the father. CAPT. G. (Thinking to show his learning.) Jack, give me away
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Soldiers Three The Story of the Gad
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Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE .
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‘Goose liver,’ I said, climbing
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she, poor innocint, lookin’ at hi
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must understand that afther this Sw
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‘Whin all was in the house again,
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who was travelling for pleasure.
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new man-of-war’s boat to pick up
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addled his brass i’ jute, an’ h
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Soa I tells Mulvaney an’ Ortheris
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all Rip’s markin’s on t’ back
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contractor said that if Mulvaney co
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’Twas on Chuseday week. I was beh
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‘“Thin take ut off again,” se
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me an’ thim we wore the draf’ o
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THE WRECK OF THE VISIGOTH [Footnote
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was the thought that we were close
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talk of fighting seems to wake up a
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her to cantonmint society. She had
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‘Then you know something that som
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‘“Not whoile I can stand,” he
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WITH THE MAIN GUARD Der jungere Uhl
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live; an’ Ah divn’t see thot th
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up his arms, and from the right arm
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down flat. Best for you ‘e did.
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dishgraceful!” ‘The fork av his
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fightin’ on him.’ ‘The what,
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North, East, South, and West.’
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of the day, a certain amount of nag
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cage, and lowered the cage into the
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packets of ammunition and ran into
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parade-ground, a rifle under him. S
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BLACK JACK To the wake av Tim O’H
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dorg, Sir. ‘S trewth I would!’
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Mulvaney raised his head, and stare
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Page 77 and 78: ‘“Fwhat is ut!” sez O’Hara,
Page 79 and 80: widout the breech-pin, for widout t
Page 81 and 82: Small mirth was in the making. Now
Page 83 and 84: MISS D. You look pink. What has hap
Page 85 and 86: MISS T. (Crimson with confusion.) O
Page 87 and 88: VOICE FROM THE UNKNOWN. Tchk! Tchk!
Page 89 and 90: MISS T. They’re beautifully shiny
Page 91 and 92: MISS T. Good gracious! So I have! G
Page 93 and 94: THE WORLD WITHOUT Certain people of
Page 95 and 96: MACKESY. The Threegan girl’s enga
Page 97 and 98: MACKESY. Ask the Committee. CURTISS
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Page 101 and 102: JERVOISE. Eh? What’s that? What
Page 103 and 104: CURTISS. She may be now. Two months
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Page 107 and 108: MRS. H. I wonder if you mean that.
Page 109 and 110: MRS. H. (With a shudder.) Thank you
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Page 113 and 114: CAPT. G. (Critically.) He doesn’t
Page 115 and 116: CAPT. G. If you can trust me in not
Page 117 and 118: CAPT. G. No! For Goodness’ sake,
Page 119 and 120: CAPT. M. (Aside) Nerves gone to fid
Page 121: CAPT. M. Poor old Gaddy! I’ve see
Page 125 and 126: General kissing, in which CAPT. G.
Page 127 and 128: THE GARDEN OF EDEN And ye shall be
Page 129 and 130: much too good for me. So much too g
Page 131 and 132: MRS. G. How long? CAPT. G. A hundre
Page 133 and 134: MRS. G. As far as you remember! Do
Page 135 and 136: MRS. G. Not so very much, am I? CAP
Page 137 and 138: CAPT. G. (Knocking the ashes out of
Page 139 and 140: Ne’er mind. ‘Keep the bit only,
Page 141 and 142: CAPT. G. Good gracious, child, don
Page 143 and 144: CAPT. G. My poor darling! I never t
Page 145 and 146: MRS. G. Oh, nothing—and you’ve
Page 147 and 148: MRS. G. Why will you always treat m
Page 149 and 150: MRS. G. (Still reading letter.) She
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Page 153 and 154: DOCTOR. (Savagely.) Hsh, you little
Page 155 and 156: They won’t recognise. They say al
Page 157 and 158: CAPT. G. Never looked prettier in y
Page 159 and 160: CAPT. G. Won’t it tire you? Bette
Page 161 and 162: JUNIOR CHAPLAIN. (Who is not in the
Page 163 and 164: GADSBY JUNIOR, aged ten months, cra
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Page 167 and 168: G. Funk. That’s the long and the
Page 169 and 170: G. Isn’t it lovely? Isn’t it ro
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feeble, aren’t dey, my Jack-in-de
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undles and the horse-boy. Moreover,
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silver? Come back with me to the No
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now gone hot-foot to Peshawur, and
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left; for—Alghias! Alghias!—the
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THE JUDGMENT OF DUNGARA See the pal
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The reports are silent here, becaus
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the like of whom Matui had never se
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‘It is the Judgment of Dungara!
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AT HOWLI THANA His own shoe, his ow
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lost, made haste to take the kid in
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an to her and rode: the black wrath
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gave him abuse. But Ram Dass went i
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call as witnesses—all men in my d
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him by the heels from the well-beam
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you, Sahib, take a pen and write cl
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ing it down in crashing avalanches
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come down and fly up again. But the
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But Janki still stumbled and crept
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draught-furnace at the bottom of Fi
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IN FLOOD TIME Tweed said tae Till:
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ten feet of water therein. It will
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After that news, I swam always with
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spent, and together we went down th
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as a father knows the voice of his
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tin box of opium pills. He told bet
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with its eyes barely opened and its
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into his ulster-pocket and finds a
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Some were white and some were tabby
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sand rupees in charity to the poor.
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and even break the great idol calle
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my losing, I cannot help hating a J
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of Infantry. In its prime it held t
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ack to him and, with it, the old ha
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garded in this light. But he forgot
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He turned down a side-street and le
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ear, with more heat than blank unbe
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hope that they might be allowed to
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Gate is new. Who pulled down the st
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So, at his own time, Khem Singh kno
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