Kipling's India . o bear. Now violate Liberty, time being bad. To mail V. P. P. (rupees hundred). Please add Whatever Your Honour can pass. Price of BloodMuch cheap at one hundred, and children want food. So trusting Your Honour will somewhat retainTrue love and affection for Govt. Bullock Train, And show awful kindness to satisfy me, I am, Graceful Master,Your H. Mukerji. It was way over there in the East near the Shan Statesthat Hicksey of the Police (A Conference of thePowers) captured Boh Naghee, the Burmese robberchief, by taking a flying leap on his head while he lay inbed under a mosqui
Kipling's India . o bear. Now violate Liberty, time being bad. To mail V. P. P. (rupees hundred). Please add Whatever Your Honour can pass. Price of BloodMuch cheap at one hundred, and children want food. So trusting Your Honour will somewhat retainTrue love and affection for Govt. Bullock Train, And show awful kindness to satisfy me, I am, Graceful Master,Your H. Mukerji. It was way over there in the East near the Shan Statesthat Hicksey of the Police (A Conference of thePowers) captured Boh Naghee, the Burmese robberchief, by taking a flying leap on his head while he lay inbed under a mosquito net; and the Dacoit chased by theInfant, fell over the palisades on top of Dennis, thefrightened and bewildered Civil Officer; and the wholeaffair ended with a little picnic of sandwiches. The first glance at the city of Mandalay, laid out likethe squares of a checker board, with good roads, gooddrainage, street lamps, and efficient police protection,makes one feel that he has reached a town of the Ameri- [188]. i udcrwooa «M L nderwooil. N. \. MAxXDALA V —THE FOLR HUNDRED AND FIFTY PACQDAS Here on Mandalay Hill sat the British Soldierand his httle Burma girl, listening to the Easta-callin and the tinkly temple bells —Mandalay ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY can western country, but the little bamboo houses andthe ever-present pagodas soon dispel the illusion. Inthe very centre of the city stands the walled town whichwas once the capital of the weak King Thebaw and hiscruel queen, Supaiyah Lat, who, to insure prosperity tothe city in its building, and afterward to protect it fromthe British, caused scores of her subjects to be buriedalive beneath the walls. Many years ago the Burmesemonarch was deposed and sent into exile in India, andhis city serves now as a fort of the British Army. Butthe gilded palaces of the king and his four queens stillstand and the magnificent audience chambers are butlittle changed. Surrounding the royal city is a moatone hundred feet wide filled with
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