The Irish standard., 1915-05-15

village brings him food he says Yes
very haughtily. and eats it slow. That
was how We came to our FIRST village"
"Take some more whisky and go on"
said. THAT was the first village you
came into. How did you get to the
kingY'
Il wasn't king" said Carnehan.
"Dravot he was the king, and hand.
some man he looked with the gold
crown on his head and all. Him and
the other party stayed in that village.
and every morning Dravot sat by the
side Of old Imbra. and the people came
and worshiped. That was Dravot's or
der. Then lot Of men came into the
valley. and Carnehan and Dravot picks
them of with the rifles before they
knew where they was. aud runs down
into the valley and up again the other
side and finds another village. same as
the first one. and the people all falls
down ddt on their faces. aud Dravot
says. Now, what is the trouble be-
tween you two villagesy and the PEG.
pie points to woman. as fair us you
or me. that was carried Off. and Dravot
takes her back to the first village ana
counts up the dead-eight there was
For each dead man Dravot pours a
little milk on the ground and waves
his arms like whirligig and That's
all right says he. Then he and Carne-
han takes the big boss OF each village
by the arm and walks them down into
the valley and shows them how to
scratch line with a spear right down
the valley aud gives each a SOD OF turf
from both sides O. the line Then we
asks the names of things in their lingo
bread and water and fire and idols
and such. and Dravot leads the priests
OF each village up to the idol and says
he must sit there and Judge the people,
and If anything goes wrong he Is to be-
shot.
Next week they was all turning up
the land in the valley rs quiet US bees.
That's just the beginning says ORA
vot- They think we're gods He and
Carnehan picks out twenty good men
and shows them how to click Off u rifle
and form tours and advance in line
He takes out his pipe and his baccy
pouch and leaves one ut one village
and one at the other. and of we two
goes to see what was to be done in
the next valley. That was all rock.
and there was little village there, and
Carnehan says: Send EN- to the old
valley to plant and takes 'em there
and gives EN- some land that wasn't
took before. Then Carnehan he went
back to DravOt, who had got into
another valley, all snow and ice and
most mountainous. There was no PEG
pie there. and the army got afraid. 80
Dravot shoots one Of them and goes on
till he finds some people In a village,
and the army explains that unless the
people wants to be killed they had bet
ter not shoot their little matchlocks.
for they had matchlocks. We makes
friends with the priest and I stays
there alone with two Of the army.
teaching the men how to drill, and a
laundering big chief comes across the
snow with kettledrums and horns
twanging. because he heard there was
a new god kicking about. Carnehan
sights for the brown Of the men half
a mile across the snow and wings one
Of them. Then he sends message to
the chief TINT unless be wished to be
killed he must come and shake hands
with me and leave his arms behind
The chief comes alone first and Carne-
han shakes hands with him and whirls
bis arms about, same rs Dravot used.
and very much surprised that chief
was. aud strokes my eyebrows. Then
Carnehan goes alone to the chief and
asks him In dumb show II he had an
enemy he hated. 4 have says the
chief. So Carnehan weeds out the
pick Of bis men and sets two of the
army to show them drill. and at the
end of two weeks the men can ma
ne,lver about as we'll as volunteers
So he marches with the chief to Il
great big plain on the top Of noun.
tain. and the chiefs men rusiles into
a village and takes it. we three Mar
tinis firing into the brown Of the enc
my. So we took that village, too, and
gives the chief rng from my coat
and says. occupy till | Gomez which
was ScrlpturnI Then sends a letter
to Dravot, wherever he be. by land or
by sea-
At the risk of throwing the creature
out Of train interrupted. How could
you write II letter up yonder:"
THE letter! Oh. the letter! Keep
looking ut me between the eyes, please.
1t was string talk letter that we'd
learned the way of it from blind beg
gar in the Punjab.
II sent that letter to Dravot and told
him to come back because this king
dom was growing too big for me to
handle, and then struck for the first
valley to see how the priests were
working. They called the village We
took along with the chief Bashkai and
the first village we took Er-Heb. The
priests ut Er!Heb was doing all right,
but they had lot of pending cases
about land to show me. and some men
from another village had been firing
arrows ut night. l went out and looked
for that village and fired four rounds
at 1t from thousand yards. That
used all the cartridges cared to spend.
and waited for Dravot. who had been
away two or three months. and kept
my people quiet One morning heard
the DEVILS own noise OF drums and
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