The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-12
THE TAKING OF LUNGTUNGPEN
By RUDYARD KIPL1NG.

Don't you come a.nigh
When Tommy is a-playin wild the bnynit an
-Barrack Room Ballad.
Ny friend Private Mulvaney told me
this, sitting on the parapet of the road
Ia Dagshai, when we were hunting but
torflies together. He had theories about
tho army and colored clay pipes per-
fectly. He said that the young soldier
is the best to work with ION account
av the surpassin innocence 'av the
child.
"Now, listen" said Mulvaney,
throwing himself full length on the wall
In the sun. I'm a born scutt av the
barrick room The army's mate an
drink TO me, bekaze I'm wan av the
few that can 'tquit ut. I've put in siv-
inteen years, an the pipeclay's in the
marrow av me If l cud have kept out
av wan big drink a month, l wud
have been a horny lift'nint by this
time--a nuisance to my betthers,
lnughin shtock to my equils an curse
to mesilf Bein fwhat am, I'm Privit
Mulvaney, wild no good conduc' pay an
devourin thirst. Always barrin me
little fri nd Bobs Bahadur, l know as
much about the army as most men.
/ said something here.
"Wolseley be shot Betune you an
me an that butterfly net, he's ram
bin, incoherint sort av divil, wild wan
OF on the quane an the coort an the
other on his blessed silf-everlastin' ly
playin Saysar an Alexandrier rowled
into lump. Now, Bobs is n sinsible lit
lie man Wild Bobs an few 3-year-
olds, I'd swape any army av the earth
into jhairum an throw ut away
aftheTward. Faith, I'm not jokin It's
the bhoys-the raw bhoys-that don't
know fwhat bullet names, an wudn't
care if they did--that do the work.
They're crammed wild bull mate till they
fairly ramps wild good Twin, an thin,
if they don t fight, they blow each 9TH
err bids off 'Tis the trut' I'm tellin
you. They should be kept on dalbhat an
kijri in the hot weather but there'd be
a mut'ny if twas done.
Ibid you liver hear how Privit Null
vaney TUX the town nv Lungtungpen
Thought not. Twas the lift mint got
the credit, but ut was me planned the
schame. A little before l was inviladed
from Burma me an four an twenty
young vans undher Lift mint Braze-
nose was ruinin our diieshins thryin to
catch dacoits. An such double ended
divils niver knew It's only n dab an
n Snider that makes a dacOit. Widout
thin he'sa p'aceful cultivator an felony
for to shoot We hunted an we hunted
an TUX fever an elephants now an again,
but no dacoits. Evenshually we puck
arowed wan man. 'Trate him tinderly,
seq the lift'nint. SO | Tux him away
into the jungle, wild the Burmese inter
prut'r an my cl amin rod. SEE l to the
man, My PEACEFUL squireen, SEE /. 'you
shquot on your hunkers an dimonstrate
TO my fri end here where your fri nds
are whin they're at homer Wild that
l INTRODUCED him to the cl amin rod, an
he COMMUNIST to jabber, the interrupt
interruptin in betunes an me helpin
the intilligince departmint wild my
clanin rod whin the man mis1emim-
bered.
"Prisintly learned that acrust the
river about nine miles away, was II
town just dhrippin wild dahs an bohs an
arrows an dacoits an elephints an jim
~siNp' RbNSJ SEC - llAS OlllOt Will
now close,
THAT night 1 went to the lift'nint
an communicates my information.
never thought much av Lift mint Brace
nose till that night He was shift wild
books. an the-ouries an all manner nv
thrimmin s no manner av use. Town,
did You sayY SEE he. 'ACcordin to the
the-ouries nv war, we shud wait for
re-enforcemints, Faith, thinks /,
we'd better dig our graves, thin, for
the nearest throOps was up to their
shtocks in he marshes out Mimhu way
But, says the lift mint, since It's a
speshil case I'll make an excepshin
Wen visit this Lungtungpen tonight
1.-The bhoys was fairly void wild de-
loight whin | tould 'em, an, by this an
that, they wint through the jungle like
buck rabbits About midnight we
come to the shtrame which had clane
forgot to minshin to my OFFICER. | was
on ahead, wild four bhoys, an thought
that the lift'nint might want to the
ourize 'Shtrip, bhoys' SEE |. 'Sthrip
TO the buff an shwim in where glory
waits1 But l can't shwim SEE two
av thin. TO think | should live to
hear that from a bhoy wild a board
school edukashinl SEE l. Take lump
av Timber, an NE an Connolly here will
ferry you over, You young ladiesl
1--WE got an ould tree trunk an pushed
off wild the kits an the rifles on ut. The
night was choSin dhark, an Just as we
was fairly embarked head the lift mint
behind av me calm out, There bit
av nullah here, SORT, SEE |. but ]
can feel the bottom already. So | cud,
for | was not IA yard from the bank
"'Bit NV Il nullah Bit av an esh,
tuaryl SEE the lift mint. Go on, you
mad Irishman Shtrip, bhoysr l heard
him lauVh. an the hhovs begun shtrip-
pin an rollin log into the water &c