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Pont, called the "house-keeper". Was she a pukka Mem-Sahib or a nowker or what? And how did she "keep" the house? A wonderful place but far and away the most thrilling and delightful of its wonders was the little white girl, Lucille Damocles' first experience of the charming genus. The boy never forgot his first meeting with Lucille.
He is sitting outside. We saw two men come with flags, making the place ready. That is always so in a dream, or on account of a a prophecy. So I knew it was come true. I saw the Red Bull on the green field, and my father he said: "Nine hundred pukka devils and the Colonel riding on a horse will look after you when you find the Red Bull!"
But the rest was all deliberately calculated to rouse the wicked envy of those who listened. He meant to make the son of "Pukka" Cunnigan feel, before he reached his heritage, that he was going up to something worth his while. To quote his own north-country metaphor, he meant to "make the colt come up the bit."
'I knew she didn't ought to go acwoss ve wiver, and I knew ve wegiment would come to me if I sent Jack home. 'You're a hero, Winkie, said Coppy 'a pukka hero! 'I don't know what vat means, said Wee Willie Winkie, 'but you mustn't call me Winkie any no more. I'm 'Percival Will'am Will'ams. And in this manner did Wee Willie Winkie enter into his manhood.
Yes: and the Pi wires that Ellis and Clay have been moved from the Northwest already, and they've taken half a dozen Bombay men, too. It's pukka famine, by the looks of it." "They're nearer the scene of action than we are; but if it comes to indenting on the Punjab this early, there's more in this than meets the eye," said Martyn. "Here to-day and gone to-morrow.
"Yes, sir," chimed in the Indiarubber Man. "A pukka children's party, with wind-sails for them to slither down and a merry-go-round on the after-capstan?" The Captain drank his tea thoughtfully; his blue eyes twinkled. "Let us have a definition of children, Standish.
Arbuthnot's warned to hold himself in readiness. "Badger" Arbuthnot? 'The Peshawur chap. Yes, and the Pi wires that Ellis and Clay have been moved from the North-West already, and they've taken half a dozen Bombay men, too. It's pukka famine, by the looks of it.
"You mean " asked Roy, his numbed interest faintly astir, "that it was to have been part of the same game as the trouble down there?" "God has given me ears and wits, Hazúr," was the cautious answer. "That would be pukka bundobast, for war and trouble to come at one stroke in the hot season, when so many of the white soldier-lóg are in the Hills.
"Let the Ghoorka drink his pugaree and pukka, Let the Hollander imbibe old schnapps galore. Tommy Atkins is the chap Who has broached a better tap, For he takes his 'arf-and-'arf in blood and gore. Blood and gore, For he takes his 'arf-and-'arf in blood and gore.
"He's by way of being a pukka soldier, you know," said Mrs. Ronaldson gaily. "That's why he's only a Major." I remembered my anticipation long ago that she would marry a soldier. It was inevitable. She had all the graces of the soldier's wife. She was civil and affable, but she could hardly conceal her intimate conviction that she was not quite as others were. Robert was breezy.
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