Kipling's India . ho, for a genera-tion, had been worshipped by all the masculine worldat Simla: There was a legend among the HiUs that she had once been young;but no living man was prepared to come forward and say boldly thatthe legend was true. Men rode up to Simla, and stayed, and wentaway and made their name and did their hfes work, and returnedagain to find the Venus Annodomini exactly as they had left her. When Very Young Gayerson joined the others in theworship of the Venus Annodomini, he was not content to worship placidly and for forms sake, . ,He was exacting, and, therefore, the Ven
Kipling's India . ho, for a genera-tion, had been worshipped by all the masculine worldat Simla: There was a legend among the HiUs that she had once been young;but no living man was prepared to come forward and say boldly thatthe legend was true. Men rode up to Simla, and stayed, and wentaway and made their name and did their hfes work, and returnedagain to find the Venus Annodomini exactly as they had left her. When Very Young Gayerson joined the others in theworship of the Venus Annodomini, he was not content to worship placidly and for forms sake, . ,He was exacting, and, therefore, the Venus Annodomini repressedhim, and shocked his spirit by telling him that she had adaughter nineteen years old. His spirit suffered a stillgreater shock when he learned that she had been asweetheart of his fathers ever so long ago. SoVery Young Gayerson rode down from Simla andYoung Gayerson, his father, remained and took hisplace at the side of the Venus Annodomini. Ahasuerus Jenkins of the Operatic Own (Army [18]. Copyri^lU by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. SIMLA —THE HILLSIDE Hero are the cottages of the Aiiglolndians who are able to getaway from the heat and dvist storms of the Indian desert. Herewas the house of Mrs. Hauksbee, the stormy petrel, which sheshared for a time with Mrs. Mallowe. Here, on three fourthsJack Barretts monthly screw, remained Mrs. Barrett, to consolethe other man, and to mourn five lively Tnonths at most, herhusbands }uent death at Quetta. Here, too, in the pre-historic days, was the little house of Delilah Aberyswith, a lady—not t(X) young—with a perfect taste in dresses, and a badlybitted tongue. Above and beyond are the wooded heights ofSimla of The Masque of Plenty ^f ANGLO-INDIA ^.ead-Quaiters), in spite of his shortcomings in horse- - lip and in matters miHtary, had a head upon his shoulders. He took two months at Simla when the year was at the spring,And underneath the deodars eternally did warbled Hke a bul-bul, but particula
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