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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.
I was too heart-sick to care, though it was all his foolishness that brought the smash. "'I'm sorry, Dan, says I, 'but there's no accounting for natives. This business is our Fifty-seven. Maybe we'll make something out of it yet, when we've got to Bashkai.
They called the village we took along with the Chief, Bashkai, and the first village we took, Er-Heb. The priests at Er-Heb was doing all right, but they had a lot of pending cases about land to show me, and some men from another village had been firing arrows at night. I went out and looked for that village, and fired four rounds at it from a thousand yards.
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.
"'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.
I was too heart-sick to care, though it was all his foolishness that brought the smash. Im sorry, Dan, says I, but theres no accounting for natives. This business is our Fifty-Seven. Maybe well make something out of it yet, when weve got to Bashkai.
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.
He used to call in Billy Fish from Bashkai, and Pikky Kergan from Shu, and an old Chief we called Kafuzelum it was like enough to his real name and hold councils with 'em when there was any fighting to be done in small villages. That was his Council of War, and the four priests of Bashkai, Shu, Khawak, and Madora was his Privy Council.
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.
One of the old priests was watching us continuous, and I felt uneasy, for I knew wed have to fudge the Ritual, and I didnt know what the men knew. The old priest was a stranger come in from beyond the village of Bashkai.
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