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Send a few thousand men by military parcel-post, prepaid, with some red seals majors and colonels from Aldershot will do. They'll give the step to the Gyppies. Hylda closed her eyes. A fever had passed from her veins. Here lay her duty before her the redemption of the pledge she had made. Whatever her own sorrow, there was work before her; a supreme effort must be made for another.
In the daytime they swam their horses in the river. A jolly form of amusement there was the blanket-tossing of intruding natives, who were rather prone to contract those things which did not belong to them; and no method of discouragement was so efficacious. The "Gyppies" were fleet of foot, but so were the troopers, and to see a lanky southerner pursuing a victim was good entertainment.
The enthusiasm of the natives was a pleasing part of the show. During four years of Egyptian Inspections I recall no single instance of any manifestation of friendliness to our troops, or even of interest in them, by Gyppies. But the Territorials seem, somehow, to have conquered their goodwill.
They held me up for an hour or more, and though officers and boys did their utmost to get them going again it was a fruitless effort, and the poor beasts were off-loaded where they lay. That night of rain and thunder, wind and cold, was bad alike for man and beast, but beyond a flippant remark of some soldier doing his best and the curious chant of the Gyppies' chorus you heard nothing.
The donk rapidly absorbed three bottles, while the distracted "Gyppies" tugged and wailed, "No gude! No gude! Finish Noo Zealand!" to which the only reply was "Imshi Yallah, you black devils." At this stage the little beast, an animal of rather miserable dimensions, with a large, rotund centrepiece, escaped and wobbled ridiculously down the street.
You tells the Gyppie to show you some styles; and between tryin' 'em on so ter speak, an' one thing and er nother, you gits all yer b clothes off. The Gyppies come to light with some booze filth it was, I bet an' we both has some, an' you pays 'em about twenty piastres fer it. Then you hooks this Manchester badge and says "Quiis kitir."
Send a few thousand men by military parcel-post, prepaid, with some red seals majors and colonels from Aldershot will do. They'll give the step to the Gyppies. Hylda closed her eyes. A fever had passed from her veins. Here lay her duty before her the redemption of the pledge she had made. Whatever her own sorrow, there was work before her; a supreme effort must be made for another.
The water was running over the roadway several inches deep, carrying with it a mass of garbage and filth which only Arab villagers would tolerate. Officers and Gyppies coaxed and wheedled the stubborn beasts through Julis, but outside the place the animals raised a chorus of protest and went down.
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