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His lips worked a little, and I could see that he was thinking more of what was passing in the chamber beyond than of my presence here. "They are blooding him again," he said; and then "What are you doing here?" I took him by the lapel of his coat to make him attend to me; for his eyes were wandering back like a mule's, at every sound behind.
It was the same in England just before our disastrous South African War, when readers of Kipling glutted themselves with imaginary slaughter, and Henley cried to our country that her whelps wanted blooding.
Besides, I tell you, Sikitola's men wanted blooding. I did for the old swine, Coetzee, with my own hands. Once he set his dogs on me, and I don't forget an injury. Laputa must have disapproved, for Henriques' voice grew high. 'Run the show the way you please, he cried; 'but don't blame me if you make a hash of it. God, man, do you think you are going to work a revolution on skim milk?
Let me therefore hear no more of your scruples; but consent to my proposal without further hesitation, unless, like a woman, you are afraid of blooding your cloaths, or, like a fool, are terrified with the apprehensions of being hanged in chains. Take my word for it, you had better be an honest man than half a rogue.
The Habshiabadis took the field at last, in a state that would have made a European commander tear his hair, and Gerrard hustled them on, blooding them by a smart little engagement with a force sent by Sher Singh's nearest governor to dispute their passage.
Their sense of observation, adaptability and team play was quickened in the life-and-death contact with the foe. Through the spring months the trench raids continued in their process of "blooding" the new army for the "big push."
Margaret, who had been for years her father's attentive pupil, saw at once that he had had a paralytic stroke. But not trusting to herself, she ran for a doctor. One of those who, obstructed by Peter, had not killed the civic dignitary, came, and cheerfully confirmed her views. He was for bleeding the patient. She declined. "He was always against blooding," said she, "especially the old."
Altogether, the 7th King's Own Asterisks had a lively twenty-four hours of it, and their casualties were heavy, far beyond the average of an ordinary day's trench work. Forty-seven they totalled in all nine killed and thirty-six wounded. They were relieved that night, this short spell being designed as a sort of introduction or breaking in or blooding to the game.
"The use of unguents and eye-powders and the dust of the road and the undesigned swallowing of saliva and the emission of seed in nocturnal pollution or at the sight of a strange woman and blooding and cupping; none of these things vitiates the fast." Q "What are the prayers of the two great annual Festivals?" And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
When you fling pennies at the Mountain Maid and the Shepherd's Bride they stop play-acting and scramble for them. Go in at night when there are drunk ploughmen to fling pennies. The Fat Wife with the Golden Locks lets you put your fingers in her arms, but that is soon over. 'The Slave-driver and his Victims. Not worth the money; they are not blooding. To Jerusalem and Back in a Jiffy.
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