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In the middle of the morning, struggling engines creaked away with the long lines of horse-trucks and carriages of rowdy troopers who cheered wildly as they set out at last upon their adventures. They crawled along the low country of the Manawatu, then along the rough cliffs above the sea, over the hills, and at length down the rocky gorge to Wellington.
Everybody had two days' rations in his haversack, so a large-scale picnic followed. From the horse-trucks emerged stolid individuals with canvas buckets you require to be fairly stolid to pass the night in a closed box, moving at twenty miles an hour, in company with eight riotous and insecurely tethered mules to draw water from the hydrant which supplied the locomotives.
'Never mind your partner. Where are your horse-trucks? 'A little to this side of the farthest place where they make lamps for the trains. 'The signal-box! Yes. 'And upon the rail nearest to the road upon the right-hand side looking up the line thus. But as regards Lutuf Ullah a tall man with a broken nose, and a Persian greyhound Aie!
The horse was reined back almost on its haunches, and forced towards the culvert. 'Never again, said Mahbub, 'will I take a shod horse for night-work. They pick up all the bones and nails in the city. He stooped to lift its forefoot, and that brought his head within a foot of Kim's. 'Down keep down, he muttered. 'The night is full of eyes. 'Two men wait thy coming behind the horse-trucks.
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