pulpit-board

Updated: April 30, 2025

Now, whether I have done thee a wrong in keeping thee from the burning-ghat, do thou and the crows settle together. So I cast him adrift into the flood-water, and he was drawn out to the open, ever wagging his thick black beard like a priest under the pulpit-board. And I saw no more of Himam Singh.

Rudyard Kipling - Soldiers Three

So I cast him adrift into the flood-water, and he was drawn out to the open, ever wagging his thick black beard like a priest under the pulpit-board. And I saw no more of Hirnam Singh. Before the breaking of the day we two parted, and I moved toward such of the jungle as was not flooded.

Rudyard Kipling - Indian Tales