Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

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The Bonds Of Discipline Poseidon's Law

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A Sahibs' War The Runners A Sahibs' War * * * * *

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"their Lawful Occasions" The Wet Litany "their Lawful Occasions" Part I

Part Ii

* * * * * The Comprehension Of Private Copper The King's Task

The Comprehension Of Private Copper

Steam Tactics The Necessitarian

* * * * * "wireless" Kaspar's Song In Varda

The Army Of A Dream Song Of The Old Guard The Army Of A Dream Part I * * * * *

Part Ii

* * * * * "they" The Return Of The Children

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Mrs. Bathurst From Lyden's "irenius"

Below The Mill Dam "our Fathers Also" Below The Mill Dam

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The Presence knows the Punjab? Lahore? Amritzar? Attaree, belike? My village is north over the fields three miles from Attaree, near the big white house which was copied from a certain place of the Great Queen's by --by--I have forgotten the name. Can the Presence recall it? Sirdar Dyal Singh Attareewalla! Yes, that is the very man; but how does the Presence know? Born and bred in Hind, was he? O-o-oh! This is quite a different matter. The Sahib's nurse was a Surtee woman from the Bombay side? That was a pity. She should have been an up-country wench; for those make stout nurses. There is no land like the Punjab. There are no people like the Sikhs. Umr Singh is my name, yes. An old man? Yes. A trooper only after all these years? Ye-es. Look at my uniform, if the Sahib doubts. Nay--nay; the Sahib looks too closely. All marks of rank were picked off it long ago, but--but it is true--mine is not a common cloth such as troopers use for their coats, and--the Sahib has sharp eyes--that black mark is such a mark as a silver chain leaves when long worn on the breast. The Sahib says that troopers do not wear silver chains? No-o. Troopers do not wear the Arder of Beritish India? No. The Sahib should have been in the Police of the Punjab. I am not a trooper, but I have been a Sahib's servant for nearly a year--bearer, butler, sweeper, any and all three. The Sahib says that Sikhs do not take menial service? True; but it was for Kurban Sahib-- my Kurban Sahib--dead these three months!