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A musician in India is a low caste person. Yet holding these views, a brave man was a brave man to Lumsden, be his birth or caste what it might be. Most English-speaking people have read Mr. Rudyard Kipling's poem about Gunga Din the bhisti, or water-carrier, who by the unanimous verdict of the soldiers was voted the bravest man in the battle. Whether Mr.
So we moved away under the trees, and I shouted for Kiramat Ali, who came running down, and I told him to send a bhisti, a water-carrier, with his leathern bucket. Then we waited. Presently the man came, with bucket and rope. "Draw water, that I may wash my hands," said I. "Achhá, sáhib," and he strode to the well and lowered his pail by the rope.
Two Sikhs and a bhisti, or water-carrier, also met their death, and two doolie-bearers were wounded thirteen men in all. One very stout old officer was in the act of having his morning bath when the shell exploded, the bhisti standing at his side and pouring over him, when squatted on a tent-mallet, his massuck of water.
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