The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-03-31
THE TAKING OF [UNGTUNGP[N'
By RUDYARD KIPL1NG.

sA6 tAnAAANN VI kOItAIOltNl LII
By RUDYARD KIPLING.
So we loosed n bloomin volley,
An we made the beggars cut,
An when our pouch was emptied out
We used the bloomin butt.
Hcl Ny!
Don't you come a-nigh
When Tommy is a-playin wild the baynit an
the butt.
-Barraclk Room Ballad.
My friend Private Mulvaney told me
this, sitting on the parapet of the road
to Dagshai. when we were hunting but
terfiies together. He had theories about
the 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, listenl'' said Mulvaney,
throwing himself full length on the wall
in the sun. 'sI'm born scutt av the
barrick room! The army's mate an
dhrink 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 cud have kept out
av wan big dhrink a month. wud
have baen horny lift mint by this
time-a nuisance to my betthers,
laughin 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, 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 -everlastin' ly
playin saysar an Alexandrier rowled
into lump. Now, Bobs is a sinsible lit
tie man. Wild Bobs an few 3-year-
olds, I'd swape any army av the earth
into a jhairum an throw ut away
aftherward. Faith I'm not jolsin It's
the bhoys-the raw bhoys-that don't
know fwhat bullet names. an wudn t
| care it they did-that do the work.
They re crammed wild bull mate till they
faixly ramps wild good Twin. an thin.
If they don't fight, they blow each 9TH
er's bids off. IT'S the trut' I'm tellin
you. They should be kept on dalbhat an
kijri in the hot weather. but there'd be
a NUT ny if twas done.
ssDid you liver hear how Privit Null
vaney TUX the town av Lungtungpen {?
thought not. Twas the lift mint got
the credit, but ut was me planned the
schame. A little before / was inviladed
from Burma me an four an twenty
young vans undher Lift mint Brace
nose was ruinin our dijeshins thryin to
catch dacoits An such double ended
divils niver knewl lis only dab an
a Snider that makes dacoit. Widout
thin he'sa p 'aceful cultivator an felony
for to shoot. We hunted an we hunted
an TUX fever an elephints now an again,
but no dacoits. Evenshually we puck
arowed wan man. 'Trate him tinderly, :
seq the lift mint. So TUX him away
into the jungle, wild the Burmese inter
prut'r an my cl'anin rod. See I to the
man. My PEACEFUL squireen, SEE 1. you
shquot on your hunkers an dimonstrate
to my friend here where your fri'nds
are whin they're at homer Wild that
l INTRODUCED him to the cl'anin rod, an
he COMMUNIST to jabber. the interprut'r
interruptin in betunes an me helpin
the intilligince departmint wild my
cl'anin rod whin the man misremim-
bered.
"Prisintly 1 learned that acrost the
river, about nine miles away. was a
town just dhrippin wild dahs AN bohs an
arrows an dacoits an elephints an jim
| gles Good. seq I. This office will
now close
''Tbat night 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 av
thrlnmln's no manner av use. Town,
did you say?' SEE he. 'Accordin to the
the-ouries av war. we shud wait for
re-enforce1nints. Faith, thinks L,
we'd better dig our graves. thin, for
the nearest throops was up to their
shtocks in the marshes out Mimbu way.
But. says the Lift mint, since tbs a
speshil case I'll make an excepshin
We'll visit this Lungtungpen tonight.
"The bhoys was fairly woild 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 l had clane
forgot to minshin to my OFFICER. 1 was
on ahead. wild four bhoys. an thought
that the lift'nint might want to the
ourize. 'Shtrip. bhoysl' SEE l. .Sthrip
to the buff an shwim in where glory
waitsl But can't shwiml' seq two
av thin. TO think should live to
hear that from bhoy wild board
school edukashinl' sez l. Take lump
av Timber. an NE an Connolly here will
ferry you over, you young ladiesl'
eve got en- Guild tree trunk an pushed
off wild the kits an the rifles on ut. The
night was chokin dhark. an just as we
was fairly embarked heard the lift mint
behind av me calm out. There's bit
av nullah here. sorr. seq |. sbnt |