The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-04-11
THE TAKING OF UUNGTUNGPEN.
By RUDYARD K1PL1Ne.

BY RUDYARD KIPLING.
So We tossed n bloomin volley,
An we made the beggars cut,
An when our pouch was emptied out
We used the bloomin butt.
Hol My!
Don't You come a-nigh
When Tommy is a-playir wild the baynit an
-Berrack Room Ballad
My friend Private Mulvaney told me
this. sitting ON the parapet of the road
to Dagshai, when we were hunting but
terfies 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 ''on account
av the surpassin innocence av the
child.
CHOW, listeny" said Mulvaney,
throwing himself full length on the wall
in the sun. ''Im a born scutt av the
barrick rooml The army's mate an
dhrinls to me, bekaze I'm wan av the
few that can't quit 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, 1 wud
have been horny lift'n by this
time-a nuisance to my betthers, a
laughin shtock to my equils an curse
to mesilf. Bein fwhat / am, l M Privit
Mulvaney, wild no good conduc pay an
a devourin thirst. Always barrin me
little fri'nd Bobs Bahadur, know as
much about the army as most men"
1 said something here.
/ 'sWolseley be shotl Betune you an
me an that butterfly net he's a ram
blin, incoherint sort av divil, wild wan
OF on the quane an the coort an the
ether on his blessed silf -everlastin'l ~
playin Saysar an Alexandrier rowled
into lump. Now, Bobs is sinsible lit
tie man. Wild Bobs an few 3-year-
olds, I'd swape any army av the earth
into jhairum an throw ut away
aftherward Faith, I'm not jokin! 'Tis
the bl1oys-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 blcv 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.
''Did you liver hear how Privit Null
vaney TUX the town av Lungtungpen 7
/ 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
aivils niver knewl IT'S only dab an
q Snider that makes dacoit Widout
thin he's a PEACEFUL 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 l TUX him away
into the jungle. wild the Burmese inter-
prut'r an my cl'anin rod. SEE to the
man, My p 'aceful squireen, seq I, you
shquot on your hunkers an dimonstrate
to my friend here where your fri nds
are whin they re at homer Wild that
INTRODUCED him to the cl amin rod, an
he COMMUNIST to jabber. the interrupt r
interruptin in betunes an me helpin
the intilligince departmint wild my
1 cl'anin rod whin the man misremim-
| bered
"Prisintly learned that acrost the
river. about nine miles away. was u
town just dhrippin wild dahs an bohs an
arrows an dacoits an elephints an jim
giles. Good seq T. This office will
now close.
''That night went to the lift mint
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
thrimmin g no manner av use. Town,
:. did you say?' seq he 'Accordin to the
A the-ouries av war. we shud wait for
re-enforcemints. 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 it's a
speshil case I'll make an excepshin
Well visit this Lungtungpen tonight.
1.-The bhoys was fairly woild wild de-
II AoA6du Will COulu Gil, all, by UQ1S 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 I thought
that the lift'nint might want to the
ourize 'shtrip, bhoysl' SEE l. 'sthrip
to the buff an shwim in where glory
waitsr But can t shwim' seq two
av, thin. TO think l should live to
hear that from a bhoy wild board
school edukashinl' seq !. Take lump
av Timber, an me an Connolly here will
ferry you over, you young ladies!'
"We got en- ould 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 I heard the lift mint
behind av me calm out. 'Theres bit
av nullah here, sorr, SEE l. but
can feel the bottom already. So cud
for was not yard from the bank.
Bit av nullahl Bit av an esh-
tuary' sez the ft'nint. Go on, you