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Updated: June 16, 2025
That day Kurban Sahib, with some ten troopers, was sent on to spy the land for our camp. The Durro Muts moved slowly at that time. They were weighted with grain and forage and carts, and they greatly wished to leave these all in some town and go on light to other business which pressed. So Kurban Sahib sought a short cut for them, a little off the line of march.
When Merry appeared in his stateroom he was greeted with a storm of questions. "Well, what does this mean?" "Trying to dodge us?" "Running away?" "Muts the whatter with you I mean what's the matter?" "Where have you been?" "Stand and give an account of yourself!" Then he told them a little story that astounded them beyond measure.
They were very angry, the Durro Muts very angry indeed. I have never seen Sahibs so angry.
The other one chuckled: "I saw one who can have my vote and all I'll ask is a better look. Believe me, some silk stockings!" As they went away I glared after them. "Damn little muts," I thought. I was rather in favor of suffrage, at least I felt indulgent about it. Why shouldn't I be? The great thing was to keep your mind open and kindly, to feel contempt for nothing whatever.
The women of the Boer-log are very clever. They are more clever than the men. The Boer-log are clever? Never, never, no! It is the Sahibs who are fools. For their own honour's sake the Sahibs must say that the Boer-log are clever; but it is the Sahibs' wonderful folly that has made the Boer-log. The Sahibs should have sent us into the game. But the Durro Muts did well.
'Now, sez I to meself, 'that's the whelp who mistreated a car which had served him well, and he's reckoning in his own mind that my car would suit his needs just as well as the one he has lost. I do believe I read that man's mind correctly. He might have said out loud: 'That party of sports were muts.
It is a Sahibs' war," and Kurban Sahib put up his hand thus; and then his eyes rolled on me, and I gave him water that he might pass the more quickly. And at the drinking his Spirit received permission.... Thus went our fight, Sahib. We Durro Muts were on a ridge working from the north to the south, where lay our main body, and the Boer-log lay in a valley working from east to west.
They did not ask him to sweep stables. They would by no means let him go. He did substitute for one of their troop-leaders who had a fever, one long day in a country full of little hills like the mouth of the Khaibar; and when they returned in the evening, the Durro Muts said, "Wallah! This is a man. Steal him!"
"See me swim," she exclaimed proudly, sitting down in the water, while William, with his tongue hanging out and a fond smile of admiration on his foolish countenance, tried to lick the plump pink shoulders presented to his view. "This is a muts nicer baff than the nasty little one. I can't think what you bringed it for, deah Med." "Deah Med" and Tony nodded gaily to one another.
Sikander Khan swore to me; and he comes of a horse-stealing clan for ten generations; he swore a Pathan was a babe beside a Durro Mut in regard to horse-lifting. The Durro Muts cannot walk on their feet at all. They are like hens on the high road. Therefore they must have horses. Very proper men, with a just lust for the war. Aah "No fee-ah," say the Durro Muts. They saw the worth of Kurban Sahib.
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