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"Beastly nuisance; Hukm hai," he explained in response to Roy's glance of inquiry. "Collins says it's a bit inflamed. I've been confabbing with Paul over the deferred wedding. But, of course, there's no chance of things settling down, unless we declare martial law.
Chicago husks and winnows her wheat by the million bushels, a hundred banks lend hundreds of millions of dollars in the year, and scores of factories turn out plow-gear and machinery by steam. Scores of daily papers do work which Hukm Chund and the barber and the midwife perform, with due regard for public opinion, in the village of Isser Jang.
Jowala Singh, the smith, mends the village plows some thirty, broken at the share, in three hundred and sixty-five days; and Hukm Chund, who is letter-writer and head of the little club under the travellers' tree, generally keeps the village posted in such gossip as the barber and the mid-wife have not yet made public property.
"What I want to know," said the young mule, who had been quiet for a long time "what I want to know is, why we have to fight at all." "Because we're told to," said the troop-horse, with a snort of contempt. "Orders," said Billy the mule, and his teeth snapped. "Hukm hai!" "Yes, but who gives the orders?" said the recruit-mule.
A punkah that may once have been white waggled officiously overhead. But for all that the flies were lords of the meal; and enjoyed it far better than those who paid for it. "Thank God for my good dinner!" Desmond muttered with a wry face as he put down his money. "You must supplement it out of Lenox's rations, old lady. Hukm hai . . . sumja?" She laughed and shrugged her shoulders.
Too many orders make confusion. But they understand "Hukm Ki raj." In fact, it's the general opinion that prompt action in the Punjab has fairly well steadied India for the present at least. "Well, I won't write more. We'll meet soon; and I don't doubt you'll explain a good deal that still puzzles and hurts me. If I seem changed, you must make allowances.
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