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Updated: June 15, 2025
All the country of the South is good a great and a terrible world, mumbled the lama drowsily. 'Let him sleep, said Kim, 'but look to it that we are well fed when he wakes. He is a very holy man. Again one of the Ooryas said something contemptuously. 'He is not a fakir. He is not a down-country beggar, Kim went on severely, addressing the stars. 'He is the most holy of holy men.
In a few happy strokes, he sketched the defendant buying this land, packing up, bidding adieu to the dear down-country home, and his toilsome journey into the woods, arrival, and purchase, and poor, hard life of toil and deprivation: here was his all.
"Come on, you village curs, you landless cripples, you wifeless sons of burnt fathers! Come on! Strike for the credit of your noseless mothers! Run not from me as your wives ran from you to better men! Come on, you sweepers, you swine-herds, you down-country street-scrapers!" and they came on to heart's content, steel clashed on steel and thudded on flesh and bone.
Was there raw turmeric among thy foodstuffs? 'Open thy bundle! It was the usual collection of small oddments: bits of cloth, quack medicines, cheap fairings, a clothful of atta greyish, rough-ground native flour twists of down-country tobacco, tawdry pipe-stems, and a packet of curry-stuff, all wrapped in a quilt.
The tallest of the company turned, his leg-irons, clanking at the movement, and stared at the boy. "See!" he cried to his fellows in Pushto. "They send children against us. What a people, and what fools!" "Hya!" said Jakin, nodding his head cheerily. "You go down-country. Khana get, peenikapanee get live like a bloomin' Raja ke marfik. That's a better bandobust than baynit get it in your innards.
All the men present were dressed in many-coloured silks and tartans, and were armed with daggers as befits warriors, but, if you had an eye for such things, you would have noticed that all the garments and weapons were worn in a manner which would have excited the ridicule of a down-country Malay.
Who ever heard of Fostum Sahib, or Yankling Sahib, or even the little Peel Sahib that sits up of nights to shoot serow I say, who, ever heard of these Sahibs coming into the hills without a down-country cook, and a bearer, and and all manner of well-paid, high-handed and oppressive folk in their tail? How can they make trouble? What of the kilta?
You know, you're not going to have any trouble at all, when we go down-country to talk to the king or whatever. This is better than fire-water ever was." "We must never misuse our advantage, Luis," Meillard said seriously. "We must use it only for their good." He really meant it.
You'll have a small escort as far as Abu; after that you'll be expected to look out for yourself. The escort is made up of details travelling down-country; they'll leave you at Abu Road."
But we who had just been conquered by the same English knew that they were over-bold, and that the Government could account easily for those down-country dogs. This Hindustani regiment, therefore, we treated with fair words, and kept standing in one place till the redcoats came after them very hot and angry.
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