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Get up, you hog! sez I, louder, for I heard the wheels av a thrap in the dark; 'get up an' light your lamps, or you'll be run into! This was on the road to the Railway Station. "'Fwhat the divil's this? sez the Capt'n's voice in the dhark, an' I could judge he was in a lather av rage.
Whin I passed the last wan I cud see her poor little fingers workin' one in another as if she wanted to touch my feet. So I dhrew the tail av this pink overcoat over her head for the greater honour, an' I slid into the dhark on the other side av the temple, and fetched up in the arms av a big fat priest. All I wanted was to get away clear.
I tuk the bottle an' the next minut I was out av the dhark av the pillar, the pink linin' wrapped round me most graceful, the music, thunderin' like kettledrums, an' a could draft blowin' round my bare legs. By this hand that did ut, I was Khrishna tootlin' on the flute the god that the rig'mental chaplain talks about. A sweet sight I must ha' looked.
'Kape on shwimmin', ye little blayguard, sez I, 'an' don't go pokin' your dirty jokes at the Irriwaddy, 'Silince, men! sings out the Lift'nint. So we shwum on into the black dhark, wid our chests on the logs, trustin' in the Saints an' the luck av the British Army. "Evenshually, we hit ground a bit av sand an' a man. I put my heel on the back av him. He skreeched an' ran.
Crook tould thim that he'd blow the hide off any man that misconducted himself; but, seeing that ut was the first time the Tyrone had iver seen their dead, I do not wondher they were on the sharp. 'Tis a shameful sight! Whin I first saw ut I wud niver ha' given quarter to any man north of the Khaibar no, nor woman either, for the women used to come out afther dhark Auggrh!
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