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Updated: May 25, 2025
'Three Rissaldar majors in three regiments. Gamblers a little, but so am I. They must be well mounted; and one cannot take the horses as in the old days one took women. Well, well, my holding can pay for all. How thinkest thou? It is a well-watered strip, but my men cheat me. I do not know how to ask save at the lance's point. Ugh!
When told by the native rissaldar of one of our cavalry regiments, who was spending his furlough at a village near Cabul, that the Afghan soldiers would be likely to break into open mutiny, and that the danger was very real, he replied quietly, "They can only kill the three or four of us here, and our death will be avenged."
They will remember this, and give me a quiet place where I can drive my lance in the shade, and wait to welcome my sons: I have no less than three Rissaldar majors all in the regiments. 'And they likewise, bound upon the Wheel, go forth from life to life from despair to despair, said the lama below his breath, 'hot, uneasy, snatching. 'Ay, the old soldier chuckled.
'Does all go well in Hind? 'Rissaldar Sahib, all goes well. 'I am like an old tortoise, look you, who puts his head out from the bank and draws it in again. Ay, this is the Road of Hindustan. All men come by this way... 'Son of a swine, is the soft part of the road meant for thee to scratch thy back upon?
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