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Updated: May 14, 2025
"They reeled, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark." or this
No quarter was asked or given, and every tribesman caught, was speared or cut down at once. Their bodies lay thickly strewn about the fields, spotting with black and green patches, the bright green of the rice crop. It was a terrible lesson, and one which the inhabitants of Swat and Bajaur will never forget. Since then their terror of Lancers has been extraordinary.
In any case among these able men who diligently collected information and observed the state of feeling, there were none who realised the latent forces that were being accumulated on all sides. The strange treachery at Maizar in June was a flash in the pan. Still no one saw the danger. It was not until the early days of July that it was noticed that there was a fanatical movement in Upper Swat.
Against an enemy unprovided with artillery, however, it could be held indefinitely; but the fact that all interior communications are open to fire, makes its defence painful to the garrison, and might, by gradually weakening their numbers, lead to its capture. The narrow, swinging, wire bridge across the Swat is nearly 500 yards long.
He often wished he did not blush quite so much, seeing he was a man of one-and-twenty. Presently he was hailed by name, and then again. He was pointed out to a raw hand, by the raw hand's experienced fellow-townsman, as "that beast Lewisham awful swat. He was second last year on the year's work. Frightful mugger. But all these swats have a touch of the beastly prig.
Then he said how maybe in collecting books we had caught a spy in our net. He said that he was going to take the paper anyway and show it to the Federal Commissioner, down in the Post Office Building. "If he's a spy, we'll swat him all right," I said. "We'll more than swat him," Mr. Ellsworth said, and I could see by the look in his eye that he meant business.
"I suppose you'll go in an' honey round Lafe in a minute, thinkin' he'll help you keep 'em," said Mrs. Grandoken. "But this time it won't do no good." "Peggy!" blurted Jinnie. "Shut your mouth! An' don't be Peggyin' me, or I'll swat you," vowed Peg. The woman glared witheringly into a pair of beseeching blue eyes. "Get into your clothes, kid," she ordered immediately, "then you "
And my wife and I both thank you heartily for your kind help. I hope it was not an awful swat. I had to say five because of the train. Good luck to you, and thanks awfully. "Yours faithfully, "CARISBROOK CAREW." If Oswald had known beforehand we should never have made that two quid for Miss Sandal.
I may swat you if you get in my way; but as soon as you were out of it and that'd be mighty soon and sudden, Grant, old boy why, I'd be friends again. Come, tell me how I'm to get clear of this engagement." "I can't talk about it to you." "Why not?" "Because I love her." Craig gasped: "Do you mean that?" "I love her as much as I'm capable of loving anybody. Didn't I tell you so?"
On the line of communications to the Malakand, stages were established at Chakdara and Sarai, with accommodation for sick and wounded. An advanced depot was formed behind the Panjkora, to guard which and to hold the passage, an additional force was moved from the Swat Valley.
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