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Updated: May 21, 2025
He could not, of course, eat with the mess, but he came in at dessert, all six feet of him, with the blue and silver turban atop, and the big black boots below. 'Did I whack you over the knee, old man? 'Ressaidar Sahib, what the devil made you play that kicking pig of a pony in the last ten minutes? 'Shabash, Ressaidar Sahib! Then the voice of the colonel, 'The health of Ressaidar Hira Singh!
"Did I whack you over the knee, old man?" "Ressaidar Sahib, what the devil made you play that kicking pig of a pony in the last ten minutes?" "Shabash, Ressaidar Sahib!" Then the voice of the colonel, "The health of Ressaidar Hira Singh!"
The mess rose joyously as he thrust forward the hilt of his saber, in token of fealty, for the colonel of the White Hussars to touch, and dropped into a vacant chair amid shouts of "Rung ho! Hira Singh!" "Did I whack you over the knee, old man?" "Ressaidar Sahib, what the devil made you play that kicking pig of a pony in the last ten minutes?" "Shabash, Ressaidar Sahib!"
"We cannot hold them, Captain Sahib!" panted a Ressaidar of Lancers. "Let us try the carbine. The lance is good, but it wastes time." They tried the carbine, and still the enemy melted away fled up the hills by hundreds when there were only twenty bullets to stop them.
Then the voice of the colonel, "The health of Ressaidar Hira Singh!" After the shouting had died away, Hira Singh rose to reply, for he was the cadet of a royal house, the son of a king's son, and knew what was due on these occasions. Thus he spoke in the vernacular: "Colonel Sahib and officers of this regiment, much honor have you done me. This will I remember.
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