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He lacks every virtue except courage, and his one regret is that he has missed the family blood-feud. There have been great doings in his family on the frontier in his absence two abductions and one homicide. "If I had not come home," his brother has written reproachfully to him from Tirah, "things had gone ill with us. But never mind about all this now. Do your duty well."
Therefore we were friends. "All wars are but shikkar to this war, sahib." "Shikkar?" "Yea, even as a tiger-hunt. But this, this is an exceeding great war." "Nay, this is a fine war a hell of a fine war." The speaker was an Afridi from Tirah, whose strongly marked aquiline features reminded me of nothing so much as a Jewish pawnbroker in Whitechapel.
So did matters ripen a step at a time. It was nothing to me, except I think and the Sahib sees this, too? that it is foolish to make an army and break their hearts in idleness. Why have they not sent for men of the Tochi the men of the Tirah the men of Buner? Folly, a thousand times. We could have done it all so gently so gently.
"This must be very different from your experience in the Tirah," Hallett said. "Yes; to begin with, it was generally so cold at night, even in the valley, that we were glad of both our blankets and cloaks; while among the passes it was bitter, indeed.
From the operations around Malakand, he at once joined Sir William Lockhart as orderly officer, and with the Tirah Expedition went through that campaign. For this his Indian medal gained a second clasp. This was in the early part of 1898.
The wise man knows horses are good that there is a profit to be made from all; and for myself but that I am a good Sunni and hate the men of Tirah I could believe the same of all the Faiths. Therefore I say in my heart the Faiths are like the horses. Each has merit in its own country. 'But my lama said altogether a different thing. 'Oh, he is an old dreamer of dreams from Bhotiyal.
Now it chanced that when the old King the Queen's son completed his days, the four that stood in the Presence were Goorkhas. Neither Sikhs alas, nor Pathans, Rajputs, nor Jats. Goorkhas, my father. 'Idolaters, said the Chaplain. 'But soldiers; for I remember in the Tirah the Havildar-Major began. 'But soldiers, for I remember fifteen campaigns. Go on, said the Subadar-Major.
Men fight first on one side, then on the other, being true to either side while the contract lasts. In all there must be the makings of many regiments among the 'Hills. " King nodded. He himself had seen the chieftains come to parley after the Tirah war. Most of them had worn British medals and had worn them proudly.
"Well, it is very difficult to be energetic in this country. I think I could be enthusiastic, in anything like a decent climate, but this takes all the spirit out of one. "I think I could have struggled over the snow in the Tirah, as you did. I can conceive myself wearing the D.S.O. in European war.
The Mohammedans, on the other hand, Afghans from the far side of the Khyber, men of the Hassan and the Aka and the Adam Khel tribes, Afridis from Kohat and Tirah and the Araksai country, any who happened to be in that wild and crowded town, turned out, too to keep order, as they pleasantly termed it, when their leaders were subsequently asked for explanations.
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