plate-laying

"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.

Rudyard Kipling - Indian Tales

“‘All right, Dan,’ says I; ‘but come along now while there’s time.’ “‘It’s your fault,’ says he, ‘for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn’t know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary’s-pass-hunting hound!’ He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.

Rudyard Kipling - The Man Who Would Be King

"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.

- Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)

"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.

Rudyard Kipling - The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories

"'All right, Dan, says I; 'but come along now while there's time. "'It's your fault, says he, 'for not looking after your Army better. There was mutiny in the midst, and you didn't know you damned engine-driving, plate-laying, missionary's-pass-hunting hound! He sat upon a rock and called me every foul name he could lay tongue to.

- Short Stories Old and New