eighty-and-twenty

Updated: May 27, 2025

And he marched with them, in among them, and ate what the cook brought him, without a thought but for the best interests of the government he served. So they buried General Baines some eighty-and-twenty miles from Harumpore, and shot the cook. And, according to the easy Indian theology, the cook was wafted off to paradise, while General Baines betook himself to hell, or was betaken.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East