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"'I'm a Chief, says Billy Fish, quite quiet. 'I stay with you. My men can go. "The Bashkai fellows didn't wait for a second word but ran off, and Dan and Me and Billy Fish walked across to where the drums were drumming and the horns were horning, It was cold awful cold. I've got that cold in the back of my head now. There's a lump of it there." The punkah-coolies had gone to sleep.
One of the old priests was watching us continuous, and I felt uneasy, for I knew we'd have to fudge the Ritual, and I didn't know what the men knew. The old priest was a stranger come in from beyond the village of Bashkai. The minute Dravot puts on the Master's apron that the girls had made for him, the priest fetches a whoop and a howl, and tries to overturn the stone that Dravot was sitting on.
'King, says he, 'be you man or God or Devil, I'll stick by you to-day. I have twenty of my men with me, and they will follow me. We'll go to Bashkai until the storm blows over. "A little snow had fallen in the night, and everything was white except the greasy fat clouds that blew down and down from the north.
The valley was full of shouting, howling creatures, and every soul was shrieking, Not a god nor a devil but only a man! The Bashkai troops stuck to Billy Fish all they were worth, but their matchlocks wasnt half as good as the Kabul breech-loaders, and four of them dropped.
The priests rolled great stones on us, and the regular Army fired hard, and there wasn't more than six men, not counting Dan, Billy Fish, and Me, that came down to the bottom of the valley alive. "Then they stopped firing and the horns in the temple blew again. 'Come away for Gord's sake come away! says Billy Fish. 'They'll send runners out to all the villages before ever we get to Bashkai.
"'What is up, Fish? I say to the Bashkai man, who was wrapped up in his furs and looking splendid to behold. "'I can't rightly say, says he; 'but if you can make the King drop all this nonsense about marriage, you'll be doing him and me and yourself a great service.
What is up, Fish? I says to the Bashkai man, who was wrapped up in his furs and looking splendid to behold. I cant rightly say, says he; but if you can induce the King to drop all this nonsense about marriage, youll be doing him and me and yourself a great service.
But there's so much to be done in every place Bashkai, Khawak, Shu, and everywhere else. "'What is it? I says. 'There are no more men coming in to be drilled this autumn. Look at those fat black clouds. They're bringing the snow.
"'I'm a Chief, says Billy Fish, quite quiet. 'I stay with you. My men can go. "The Bashkai fellows didn't wait for a second word, but ran off, and Dan and Me and Billy Fish walked across to where the drums were drumming and the horns were horning. It was cold awful cold. I've got that cold in the back of my head now. There's a lump of it there." The punka-coolies had gone to sleep.
Come away! says Billy Fish. Ruin and Mutiny is the matter. Well break for Bashkai if we can. I tried to give some sort of orders to my men the men o the regular Army but it was no use, so I fired into the brown of em with an English Martini and drilled three beggars in a line.
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