iron-that

Updated: May 9, 2025

There were houses built of stolen corrugated iron-that cursed, hot, hideous stuff that the West has inflicted on an all-too-willing East; others of wood of stone of mud of mat of skins even of tent-cloth. Most of them were filthy. A row of kites sat on the roof of one, and in the gutter near it three gorged vultures sat on the remains of a mule.

Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles