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Updated: June 15, 2025
And the mother being sick too ... Hush, then, little one ... We changed his name when the fever came. We put him into girl's clothes. There was nothing we did not do, except I said to his mother when she bundled me off to Benares she should have come with me I said Sakhi Sarwar Sultan would serve us best. We know His generosity, but these down-country Gods are strangers.
'He he he said, "I I'm very sorry, Mrs Spicer; but I I want William." It turned out that William was wanted on account of a horse missed from Wall's station and sold down-country. 'An' mother took on awful, sobbed Annie; 'an' now she'll only sit stock-still an' stare in front of her, and won't take no notice of any of us. Oh! it's awful, Mrs Wilson.
We'll go before six o'clock if you want to sleep, and we won't steal any of the papers. Don't you sit up. We're two harmless lunatics, and if you come to-morrow evening down to the Serai we'll say good-bye to you." "You are two fools," I answered. "You'll be turned back at the Frontier or cut up the minute you set foot in Afghanistan. Do you want any money or a recommendation down-country?
"I understand everything better than I did, Parker," returned Colonel Ward, feelingly, turning away wet eyes. The astonishment in Sunkhaze settlement when the doughty ex-tyrant was borne through to the "down-country" train, accompanied by Parker and Joshua, was so intense that only the postmaster recovered himself in season to put a few leading questions.
'On the road where I stood was a small bush grog-shop, and the coaches pulled up here to refresh the ever-thirsty bush traveller. At this spot the up-country and down-country coaches met, and I resolved that I would get into whichever came in first, leaving it to destiny to settle.
"There was a down-country jackal had it from a brother, who told me, that in Calcutta of the South all the jackals were as fat as otters in the Rains," said the Jackal, his mouth watering at the bare thought of it. "Ah, but the white-faces are there the English, and they bring dogs from somewhere down the river in boats big fat dogs to keep those same jackals lean," said the Adjutant.
We ran above a great ravine at Barnstaple, and the scene was so fine, that I gave mental thanks to the glaciers which, in the ice age, had so tastefully scooped out all this down-country into graceful curves and majestic cliffs. After leaving the sea behind us we were ringed in, swallowed up among lovely, gracious hills, which hid the world from us us from the world.
'Believe me, now and again, we women, O priest, think of other matters than sons. Moreover, my daughter has borne her man-child. 'Two arrows in the quiver are better than one; and three are better still. Kim quoted the proverb with a meditative cough, looking discreetly earthward. 'True oh, true. But perhaps that will come. Certainly those down-country Brahmins are utterly useless.
'Let the Gods order it. I have never pestered Them with prayers. I do not think They will pester me. Look you, I have noticed in my long life that those who eternally break in upon Those Above with complaints and reports and bellowings and weepings are presently sent for in haste, as our Colonel used to send for slack-jawed down-country men who talked too much. No, I have never wearied the Gods.
The first house we came to was guarded by an unmistakeable English hotel-keeper, of some eighteen stone; and so terrible was the appearance she presented, with her arms akimbo, rejoicing in her mountain air, that in our down-country and dilapidated condition, we felt quite unequal to the exertion of stepping into HER little parlour; and passing her establishment something in the small bathingplace-style of architecture we went on to the next, very much of the same order, and called the "Brahminee Bull."
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