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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...Contents CHILLIANWALLAH..................................................................................................................... 14 THE DOE: A FRAGMENT........................................................................................................... 15 BEAUTY ROHTRAUT ..................................................................................

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...SERIES PUBLICATION Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...IES PUBLICATION Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an’ the missis and the kid; V erses 1889 to 1896 15 Our orders was to break you, an’ of course we went an’ did. We sloshed you ... ... and the best of the Corp’ral’s shirt. I left my cap in a public-house, my boots in the public road, And Lord knows where, and I don’t care,... ...sergeants look white, Remember it’s ruin to run from a fight: So take open order, lie down, and sit tight, And wait for supports like a soldier. ... ... Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha! We broke a King and we built a road — A court-house stands where the reg’ment goed. Kipling 50 And the river’s clean whe... ...ow and sings so clear! “Advance my standards to that war, And bid my good knights prick and ride; The gled shall watch as fierce a fight As e’er was...