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"I have heard a variation of that," said Kirby. "Have you ever heard, sahib, that he who strikes the wearer of a Northern knife is like to feel that knife? So Ranjoor Singh, the Jat, is missing?" "Yes," said Kirby, frowning, for he was not pleased to hear Ranjoor Singh spoken of slightingly. A Jat may be a good enough man, and usually is, but a Sikh is a Jat who is better.
'I am chela to Teshoo Lama, an Holy One from Bhotiyal within there. He bade me come. I wait. Tell him. 'Do not forget the child, cried the importunate Jat over his shoulder, and then bellowed in Punjabi; 'O Holy One O disciple of the Holy One O Gods above all the Worlds behold affliction sitting at the gate! That cry is so common in Benares that the passers never turned their heads.
All he thought of was whether he could crush me and make me give up my prisoner. "Ranjoor Singh is a buffalo of buffaloes a Jat buffalo of no imagination and no sense. He is buffalo enough to love the British Raj and his squadron of Jat farmers with all his stupid Sikh heart! There could not be a better for the purpose than this Ranjoor Singh!
But you, who are desperately poor, and therefore by these standards of no ac-count, know things, will understand when I write that they have managed to get a million of men together on flat land, and that the bulk of these men together appear to be lower than Mahajans and not so companionable as a Punjabi Jat after harvest.
When the watchman had walked out of his sandals to approach in his bare feet, the Captain said, "Is your tongue still to remain in your mouth, Jungwa, or has it been made sacrifice to the knife for the sin of telling in the cookhouse tales of your Sahib and last night?" "No, Sahib, I have not spoken. I am a Meena of the Ossary jat.
Meanwhile the Jat army was marching up in fancied security from Sikandrabad, under Jowahir Singh, the son of their chief, when they were suddenly charged by the Moghul advanced guard, with the head of Suraj Mal borne on a horseman's lance as their standard. In the panic which ensued upon this ghastly spectacle, the Jats were thoroughly routed and driven back into their own country.
Now that he will be whole again, how shall I go back to his mother and say I took help by the wayside and did not even give a bowl of curds in return? 'They are alike, these Jats, said Kim softly. 'The Jat stood on his dunghill and the King's elephants went by. "O driver," said he, "what will you sell those little donkeys for?"
'Turn and look, O Jat! 'The Gods protect us, said the hooded Kamboh, emerging like a buffalo from the reeds. 'But whither went the Mahratta? What hast thou done? Kim had been trained by Lurgan Sahib; E23, by virtue of his business, was no bad actor.
I found them charming and most entertaining, simple, quiet people; not the shrill-voiced tourist jat at all. They had been travelling, so they told me, with a sort of dreary satisfaction, for two years, and they had still about a year to do. It sounded like hard labour! The poor dears! I can't think why they did it.
The Sikh kingdom has been broken up, but the Jat principality of Bhartpur still exists, though with contracted limits, and in a state of complete dependence on the British Government. It is, therefore, possible that the yeomen of Kent and Hampshire have blood relations in the natives of Bhartpur and the Panjab.
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