mud-fort

Updated: May 8, 2025

He would cut down a mail-runner from pure wantonness, or bombard a mud-fort with rifle-fire when he knew that our men needed to sleep. In his leisure moments he would go on circuit among his neighbours, and try to incite other tribes to devilry. Also, he kept a kind of hotel for fellow-outlaws in his own village, which lay in a valley called Bersund.

Rudyard Kipling - Soldiers Three - Part 2

Here the tribe would temporise, and lie and bully, and some of the younger men, merely to show contempt of authority, would raid another police-post and fire into some frontier mud-fort, and, if lucky, kill a real English officer. Then the Government would say: " Observe; if you really persist in this line of conduct, you will be hurt."

Rudyard Kipling - Soldiers Three - Part 2