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Go! says I. Go to Hell, Dan. Im with you here. Billy Fish, you clear out, and we two will meet those folk. Im a Chief, says Billy Fish, quite quiet. I stay with you. My men can go. The Bashkai fellows didnt 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.
'Ruin and Mutiny is the matter. We'll 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.
"I sent that letter to Dravot," said Carnehan, "and told him to come back because this Kingdom was growing too big for me to handle; and then I struck for the first valley, to see how the priests were working. They called the village we took along with the Chief, Bashkai, and the first village we took, Er-Heb.
Hammered gold it was five pound weight, like a hoop of a barrel. "'Peachey, says Dravot, 'we don't want to fight no more. The Craft's the trick so help me! and he brings forward that same Chief that I left at Bashkai Billy Fish we called him afterward, because he was so like Billy Fish that drove the big tank-engine at Mach on the Bolan in the old days.
"'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.
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 wasn't half as good as the Kabul breech-loaders, and four of them dropped.
Billy Fish and two of his matchlock men catches hold of Dan by the shoulders and drags him into the Bashkai lot, while the priests howls in their lingo, 'Neither God nor Devil, but a man! I was all taken aback, for a priest cut at me in front, and the Army behind began firing into the Bashkai men. "'God A'mighty! says Dan, 'what is the meaning o' this? "'Come back! Come away! says Billy Fish.
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 wasn't half as good as the Kabul breech-loaders, and four of them dropped.
The six Bashkai men looked at Billy Fish hungry-way as if they wanted to ask something, but they never said a word. At noon we came to the top of a flat mountain all covered with snow, and when we climbed up into it, behold, there was an Army in position waiting in the middle! "'The runners have been very quick, says Billy Fish, with a little bit of a laugh. 'They are waiting for us.
Next morning we was in a cruel bad country all up and down, no level ground at all, and no food either. The six Bashkai men looked at Billy Fish hungry-wise as if they wanted to ask something, but they said never a word. At noon we came to the top of a flat mountain all covered with snow, and when we climbed up into it, behold, there was an army in position waiting in the middle!
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