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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling (10); The Naulahka; a Story of West and East, Written in Collaboration With Wolcott Balestier
The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling The Naulahka a Story of West and East Written in Collaboration With Wolcott Balestier - 10 Author:Rudyard Kipling Volume: 10 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Charles Scribner's sons Subjects: History / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and t... more »here may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI In the State of Kot-Kumharsen, where the wild dacoits abound And the Thakurs live in castles on the hills, Where the bunnia and bunjara in alternate streaks are found And the Rajah cannot liquidate his bills ; Where the Agent Sahib Bahadur shoots the black-buck for his larder From the tonga which he uses as machan, "Twas a white man from the west, came expressly to investigate the natural wealth of Hindustan. Song from Libretto of Naulahka. Under certain conditions four days can dwarf eternity. Tarvin had found these circumstances 4 in the bullock-cart trom which he crawled ninety- six hours after the bullocks had got up from the dust at Rawut Junction. They stretched behind him -- those hours -- in a maddening, creaking, dusty, deliberate process. on. In an hour the bullock-cart went two and a half miles. Fortunes had been made and lost in Topaz -- happy Topaz! -- while the cart plowed its way across a red- hot river-bed shut in between two walls of belted sand. New cities might have risen in the West and fallen to ruins older than Thebes while, after Copyright, i. l. y'. by Macmillan« less