The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-13
wounded he said. IAN so I didn't wan
to see this felIer lie there
Describes Scenes Grice Saw.

Describes Scenes Grice Saw.
with the Afghans- Sam Grice saw lot
of them He was in the thick of il for
long time. The day he saved Lord Rob
erts he spiked nine cannon TO save them
from the enemy. Now. to get back to Kip
ling in The Drums of the Fore and Aft
he tells thus of a stricken field with those
Afghans coming on-fncidentaIIy showing
the sort of men Sam Grice waited for
when he spiked the guns.
A private of the Fore and Aft spun W
his company shrielSing with agony
another was kicking up the earth. and
lower intestines by a jagged bullet, was
calling aloud on his comrades to put him
ties and they were not soothing to see-
The smoke cleared to a dull haze.
--- And a mass-a black mass
detached itself from the main body and
rolled over the ground at horrid speed.
1t was composed of perhaps three hum
dred men who would shout and fire and
slash if the rush of their fifty comrades
who were determined TO die carried home.
The fifty were Ghazis, half maddened
with drugs and wholly mad with religious
fana ticism.
Nor does his happiness increase when
hundred six foot fiends upon whose
boards the foam is lying. upon whose
tongues is roar of wrath and in whose
hands are yard long knives
Fighting the Dervishes.
After several years fighting such peo-
and had plenty to do with the dervishes
-Kipling tells of them and their ways or
fighting in Fuzzy Wuzzy''-
% e PUSHES. at the smoke when we let
An; before we know 'e's 'ackin at our
cad:
An ,e's generally shammin wen 'e's
dead.
Els a InjIa rubber idiot on the spree,
e. the only thing that doesn't give a
For a regiment o British infantry
So 'Ere's to you. Fuzzy Wuzzy. with your
'ome in the Soudan,
You're poor benighted heather. but
first class fightin' man
An ere's to you F1zzy Wuzzy, with your
'avrick cad of air
Xou big black boundin' beggar. for you
broke a British square!
Downfall Comes Through Loot
All of which shows the heroism-but
of Sam Grices. Perhaps it had something
to do with making him what he is now
ANYWAY he went through it, and Kip
ling tells of it in his poem Loot, thus
Now remember, wen your 'acling round
a gilded Burma god
That is eyes is very often precious
An if Won treat niger to a dose Of
'E's like to show you everything he
Wen e won't produce no raore. pour
some water on the floor
Where you ear it answer hollow to your
boot
Wen the ground begins to sink. shove
Your baynick down the chink
An you're sure to touch the
(Chorus) Loo, Loo, Lulu, Loot, Loot, Loot
At any rate. whatever be the causes or
things as they have come 20 be with Sam
Grice, no better description of the mental
attitude of the man toward the commun-
ity could be found than kipling wrote
in his Lament of a Cattle Thief -
ITS woe to bend the stubborn back
Above the grinching quern
It's woe to hear the leg bar clack
And jingle when turn.
But for the sorrow and the shame
The brand on me and mine
I'll pay you back in leaping flame
And loss of the butchered kline.
The people and the scenes were the peo-
pie and scenes of Sam Grice's early
career-and in the lines you can read
perhaps. something of the thief as well
as of the hero.