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... ? ' You put some juldee 2 in it ' Or I'll marrow 3 you this minute ' If you don't fill up my helmet , Gunga Din ! ' 1 Mr. Atkins's equivalent for ' O brother . ' 2 Be quick . 3 Hit you . ' E would dot an ' carry one Till the GUNGA DIN 27.
... ? ' You put some juldee 2 in it ' Or I'll marrow 3 you this minute ' If you don't fill up my helmet , Gunga Din ! ' 1 Mr. Atkins's equivalent for ' O brother . ' 2 Be quick . 3 Hit you . ' E would dot an ' carry one Till the GUNGA DIN 27.
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Rudyard Kipling. ' E would dot an ' carry one Till the longest day was done ; An ' ' e didn't seem to know the use o ' fear . If we charged or broke or cut , You could bet your bloomin ' nut , ' E'd be waitin ' fifty paces right flank ...
Rudyard Kipling. ' E would dot an ' carry one Till the longest day was done ; An ' ' e didn't seem to know the use o ' fear . If we charged or broke or cut , You could bet your bloomin ' nut , ' E'd be waitin ' fifty paces right flank ...
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... ! Din ! Din ! " Ere's a beggar with a bullet through ' is spleen ; " E's chawin ' up the ground , ' An ' ' e's kickin ' all around : ' For Gawd's sake git the water , Gunga Din ! ' ' E carried me away To where a dooli lay GUNGA DIN 29.
... ! Din ! Din ! " Ere's a beggar with a bullet through ' is spleen ; " E's chawin ' up the ground , ' An ' ' e's kickin ' all around : ' For Gawd's sake git the water , Gunga Din ! ' ' E carried me away To where a dooli lay GUNGA DIN 29.
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Rudyard Kipling. ' E carried me away To where a dooli lay , An ' a bullet came an ' drilled the beggar clean . ' E put me safe inside , An ' just before ' e died , ' I ' ope you liked your drink , ' sez Gunga Din . So I'll meet ' im ...
Rudyard Kipling. ' E carried me away To where a dooli lay , An ' a bullet came an ' drilled the beggar clean . ' E put me safe inside , An ' just before ' e died , ' I ' ope you liked your drink , ' sez Gunga Din . So I'll meet ' im ...
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... carry me off , As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough , When the Widow give the party . ' What was the end of all the show , ' Johnnie , Johnnie ? ' Ask my Colonel , for I don't know , Johnnie , my Johnnie , aha ! We broke a King and ...
... carry me off , As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough , When the Widow give the party . ' What was the end of all the show , ' Johnnie , Johnnie ? ' Ask my Colonel , for I don't know , Johnnie , my Johnnie , aha ! We broke a King and ...
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ain't Ao-Safai BALLAD be'ind beggar Belts beneath best go look Bisesa blood bloomin Blow the bugle Boh Da Thone Bolivar Captain Colonel's curse Danny Deever dark dawn dead dear lass death Delhi town Devil drunk and resisting English Library Er-Heb ere's Evarra eyes fire Flag of England ford Francs per volume Fuzzy-Wuzzy goin Gunga Gunga Din guns hangin heart HELEN MATHERS honour J. M. BARRIE Johnnie Kabul river Kamal Khyber King Kysh loot Lord LUCAS MALET marchin mare mist Molly Bawn mornin never night old trail oont orses Priests Queen Red Horse resisting the Guard road to Mandalay row in Silver RUDYARD KIPLING Scindia screw-guns skipper soul stars story sword tale Taman There's thou to-day Tommy troopin true love Twas Unlighted Shrine W. D. HOWELLS war-ship Clampherdown wheel Widow at Windsor Widow give wind
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Page 94 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 28 - is dirty 'ide 'E was white, clear white, inside When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire! It was 'Din! Din! Din!' With the bullets kickin
Page 13 - An' a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We 'eld our bloomin' own, the papers say, But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oiler.
Page 59 - When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun was droppin' slow, She'd git 'er little banjo an' she'd sing 'Kulla-lo-lo!' With 'er arm upon my shoulder an' 'er cheek agin my cheek We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin
Page 85 - And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride: He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and the day, And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away. Then up and spoke the Colonel's son that led a troop of the Guides : ' Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kamal hides...
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Page 29 - e's kickin' all around: "For Gawd's sake git the water, Gunga Din!" "E carried me away To where a dooli lay, An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean. 'E put me safe inside, An' just before 'e died, "I 'ope you liked your drink,