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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I can't tell all we did for the next six months, because Dravot did a lot I couldn't see the hang of, and he learned their lingo in a way I never could. My work was to help the people plough, and now and again go out with some of the Army and see what the other villages were doing, and make 'em throw rope bridges across the ravines which cut up the country horrid.
"One morning I heard the devil's own noise of drums and horns, and Dan Dravot marches down the hill with his Army and a tail of hundreds of men, and, which was the most amazing, a great gold crown on his head. 'My Gord, Carnehan, says Daniel, 'this is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as far as it's worth having.
A little, said Dravot, sweetly. As big a map as you have got, even if its all blank where Kafiristan is, and any books youve got. We can read, though we arent very educated. I uncased the big thirty-two-miles-to-the-inch map of India, and two smaller Frontier maps, hauled down volume INF-KAN of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the men consulted them.
'Shake hands with him, says Dravot, and I shook hands and nearly dropped, for Billy Fish gave me the Grip. I said nothing, but tried him with the Fellow Craft Grip. He answers, all right, and I tried the Master's Grip, but that was a slip. 'A Fellow Craft he is! I says to Dan. 'Does he know the word? 'He does, says Dan, 'and all the priests know. It's a miracle!
Kings we were, with crowns upon our heads me and Dravot poor Dan oh, poor, poor Dan, that would never take advice, not though I begged of him!" "Take the whiskey," I said, "and take your own time. Tell me all you can recollect of everything from beginning to end. You got across the border on your camels, Dravot dressed as a mad priest and you his servant. Do you remember that?"
I wasnt any means comfortable, for I knew that dealings with a woman in foreign parts, though you was a crowned King twenty times over, could not but be risky. I got up very early in the morning while Dravot was asleep, and I saw the priests talking together in whispers, and the Chiefs talking together too, and they looked at me out of the corners of their eyes.
The Bible says that Kings aint to waste their strength on women, specially when theyve got a new raw Kingdom to work over. For the last time of answering, I will, said Dravot, and he went away through the pine-trees looking like a big red devil. The low sun hit his crown and beard on one side, and the two blazed like hot coals. But getting a wife was not as easy as Dan thought.
"'For the last time o' asking, Dan, do not, I says. 'It'll only bring us harm. The Bible says that Kings ain't to waste their strength on women, 'specially when they've got a new raw Kingdom to work over. "'For the last time of answering, I will, said Dravot, and he went away through the pine-trees looking like a big red devil, the sun being on his crown and beard and all.
The Bible says that Kings ain't to waste their strength on women, 'specially when they've got a new raw Kingdom to work over. "'For the last time of answering I will, said Dravot, and he went away through the pine-trees looking like a big red devil, the sun being on his crown and beard and all. "But getting a wife was not as easy as Dan thought.
That was to impress the people, and then they settled down quiet, and Carnehan went back to Dravot who had got into another valley, all snow and ice and most mountaineous.
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