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By RUDYARD KIPLING.

So we loosed a bloomin volley, An we made the beggars cut An when our pouch was emptied ont We used the bloomin butt. Ho! My! Don't you come a-nigh When Tommy is a-playin wid the baynit an the butt.

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—Barrack Room Ballad. My friend Private Mulvaney told me this, sitting on the parapet of the road to Dagshai, when we were hunting but- | terflies together. He had theories about | the army and colored clay pipes per- |

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ed boots for mcn It’s fectly. He said that the young soldier is the best to work with, ‘fon account |

something gocd too, av the surpassin innccince av the | ? : ; child.’”’

ana one of th? latest ‘‘Now, listen!’’ said Mulvaney, | throwing himself full length on the wall |

fads. Iv’s a man’s inthe sun. ‘I’m a born scuft av the | barrick room! The army’s mate an |

_marrowavy me. If I cud have kept out | av wan big dhrink a month, i wud | have been a hon'ry lift’nint by this | time—a nuisance to my betthers, a | laughin shtock to my equils an a curse | to mesilf. Bein fwhat I am, I’m Privit Mulvaney, wid no good conduc’ pay an a devourin thirst. lways barrin me little fri’nd Bobs Bahadur, I know as much about the army as most men.”’

I said something here.

‘‘Wolseley be shot! Betune you an mean that butterfly net, he’s a ram- blin, incoherint sort av a divil, wid wan | oi on the quane an the coort an the | other on his blessed silf—everlastin'ly | _playin Saysar an Alexandrier rowled | | into a lump. Now, Bobs isa sinsible lit- | tle man. Wid Bobs ana few 3-year- | | olds, I'd swape any army av the earth 'into a jhairum an throw ut away nia aftherward. Faith, I'm not jokin! ’Tis |

the bhoys—the raw bhoys—that don’t know fwhat a bullet manes, an wudn’t care if they did—that do the work They’re crammed wid bull mate till they fairly ramps wid good livin, an thin, if they don’t fight, they blow each oth- | er’s hids off. ‘Tis the trut’ I’m tellin

_you. They should be kept on dalbhat an

Ne | kijri in the hot weather, but there’d be Ch town, P. E I. _amut’ny if ’twas done. ae | ‘Did you iver hear how Privit Mul- SEES vaney tuk the town av Lungtungpen 2 _Ithought not. "Twas the lift’nint got the credit, but ut was me planned the schame. A little before I was inviladed from Burma me an four an twenty young wans undher a Lift’nint Braze- bose was ruinin onr dijeshins thryin to catch dacoits. Ansuch double ended divils I niver knew! ’Tis only a dah an a Snider that makes a dacoit. Widout thim he’sa p’aceful cultivator an felony for to shoot. We hunted an we hunted an tuk fever an elephints now an again, but no dacoits. Evenshually we puck- arowed wan man. ‘Trate him tinderly,' | sez the lift’nint. So I tuk him away into the jungle, wit the Burmese inter- _prot’y an my ci'anin rod: Sez I to the man, ‘My p’aceful squireen,’ sez I, ‘you shquot on your hunkers an dimonstrate to my fri’end here whére your fri’nds _ are whin they're at» home?? Wid tbat | [ introjuced him to the cl’anin rod, an he comminst to “jabber,. the interprut’r | interruptin in*betines an me helpin | the intilligince departmint. wid my _cl’anin rod whin the man misremim- | | bered. . ‘“‘Prisintly I learned that acrost the fiver, about nine miles away, was a town just dhrippin wid dahs an bohs an | arrows an dacoits an elephints an jin- | gies. ‘Good,’ sez I ‘*This othce wu! _ now close.’ “That night I'went to the lift’nint | an communicates my information. | | _ never thought much av Lift’nint Braze- | nose till that night. He was shtiff wid | _ books an the-ouries an all manner av | | thrimmin’s no manner av use. “Town, |

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did you say?’ sez he ‘Accordin to the the-ouries av war, we shud wait for _re-enforcemints.’ ‘Faith,’ thinks I, | | ‘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’nint, ‘since ‘tis a speshil case I'll make an excepshin | We'll visit this Luzgtungpen tonight. | ‘*The bhoys was fairly woild wid de- | loight whin I tould ’em, an, by this an | | that, they wint through the jungle like | buck rabbits. About midnight we !

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come to the shtrame which I had clane | forgot to minshin to my orficer. I was on ahead, wid four bhoys, an I thought that the lift’nint might want to the

ourize. ‘Shtrip, bhoys!’ sez. ‘Sthrip | to the buff an shwim in where glory waits!’ ‘But I can’t shwim!’ sez two ‘av thim. ‘To think I should live to | /hear that from a bhoy wid a board | school edukashin!’ sez L ‘Take a lump | av thimber, an nie an Conolly here will |

ferry you over, you young ladies!’ | **We got am ould tree trunk an gas | ; | off wid the kits an the rifles on ut. e. oe tin, 3 Ib, nighé was chokin dhark, an just as we aked Beans was fairly émba: “ed I heard the lift’nint fer 10 cents a | : can

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| ' for I Was hot a yard from thie bank. i ‘oak coke " ‘Bit av 4 hullah! Bit av an esh- and evry day by deat tuary!’ sez the lift’nint ‘Go on, you : 2 | mad Irishman! Shtrip, bhoys!' I heard | him laugh, an the bhoys begun shtrip-

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I a a we bad got into the Thames below Sheerness by mistake ‘Kapeon shwim- min, you little blayguard,’ sez [, ‘an

| don’t go pokin your dirty jokes at the

lrawadi ‘Silince, men!’ sings out the lift’nint. So we shwum on into the black dbark, wid our chests on the logs, |

trustin in the saints an the Juck av the British army

‘‘Evenshually we hit gronnd—a bit |

av sand—an aman I put my heel on the back av him. He skreeched an ran.

‘* ‘Now we've done ut!’ eez Lift’nint “Where the divil is Lung- tungpen?’ There was about a minute an a half to wait. The bhoys laid a bould av their rifles, an some thried to put their belts on. wid fixed baynits, av coorse. Thin we knew where Lungtunpgen was, for we had hit the river wall av ut in the dhark, an the whole town blazed wid thim messin jingles an Sniders like a cat's back on a frosty night. They was firin all ways at wunst, but over our hids into the shtrame.

‘““*Have you got your rifles?’ sez Brazenose. ‘Got ’em!' sez Orth’ris, ‘I've got that thief Mulvaney’s for all my back pay, an she'll kick my heart sick wid that blunderin long shtock av hers.’ ‘Go on!'. yells Brazenose, whip- pin his sword out. ‘Go on an take the town! An the Lord have mercy on our sow!ls |’

“Thin the bhoys gave wan divastat-

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in how! an pranced into the dhark, : feelin for the town, an blindin an stiffin |

like cavalry ridin masters when the grass pricked their bare legs) I ham- mered wid the butt at some bamboo things that felt wake, an the rest come an hammered contagious, while the jingles was jinglin, an feroshus yells

from inside was shplittin our ears) We

was too close under the wall for them to hurt us.

‘*Evenshually, the thing, whatever ut was, bruk, an the six and twinty av

_ us tambled, wan afther the other, naked

as we was borrun, into the town av Luntungpen. There was a melly ava

sumpshus kind for awhoile, but whether | they tuk us, all white an wet, for a

new breed av divil or a new kind av da- coit Idon’t know. They ran as though we was both, an we wint into thim,

baynit an butt, shriekin wid laughin. | There was tcrches in the sthreets, an I |

saw little Orth’ris rubbin his show]ther

_ivry time he loosed my long shtock |

Martini, an Brazenose walkin into the gang wid bis sword, like Diarmid av the Golden Collar, barrin he hadn't astitchavclothinonhim. We diskiver-

ed elephints wid dacoits under their | bellies, an, what wid wan thing an an- |

other, we was busy till mornin takip possession av the town av Lungtungpen.

“Thin we halted an formed up, the | wimmen howlin in the houses an Lif- |

t’nint Brazenose blushin pink in the light av the mornin snn. "Twas the most ondasint p’rade I iver tuk a hand in. Foive and twenty privits an a

orficer av the line in review ordher, an |

not as much as wud dust a fife betune ‘em all in the way av clothin! Eight av us had their belts an pouches on, but

the rest had gone in wid a handful av |

cartridges an the skin God gave him.

_ They was as nakid as Vanus. ‘**Number off from the rigtt,’ sez | ‘Odd numbers fall out to | dress; even numbers pathrol the town |

the lift’nint.

till relieved by the dressin party.’ Let

me tell you, pathrollin a town wid) I pa- | throlled for tin minutes, an begad be- | | fore 'twas over I blushed. The women

nothin on is an expayrience.

laughed so. I niver blushed before or

' since, but I blushed all over my carkiss

thin. Orth’ris didn’t pathrol He sez only, ‘Po?hsmith barricks dn the ‘ard ava Sunday.’ Thin he lay down an rowled anyways wid laughin.

‘‘When we was all dhressed, we

counted the dead—sivinty-foive dacoits besides wounded. We tuk five elephints, a hunder an sivinty Sniders, two hun- der dahs an a lot ay other burglarions thruck. Not a man av us was hurt, ex-

cep’ maybe the lift’nint, an he from

the shock to his dacincy. ‘‘The headman ay Lungtungpen, who

| surrindered himself, asked the inter- prut’r, ‘If the English fight like @at |

wid their clo’es off, what in the wurrulé

| do they do wid theirclo’eson?’ Orth’ris | began rowlin his eyes an crackir his |

fingers an dancin astep dance for to im-

| press the headman. Heran to his house,

an we spint the rest av the day carryin the lift’nint on our showlthers round the town an playin wid the Burmese babies—fat little, brown little divils, as pretty as pictures.

**Whin I was inviladed for the dysen- t’ry -to India, I sez to the lift'nint, ‘Sorr,’ sez I, ‘you've the makin’s in you av a great man; but, if you'll let an ould sodger spake, you're too fond av the-ourizin.’ Heshuk hands wid me an sez: ‘Hit high, hit low, there’s no pl’'asin you, Mulvaney. You’veseen me waltzin through. Lungtungpen like a red ifjin Widout the warpaint, an yon say i’m too fond av the-ourizin! ‘Sorr,’ sez I, for I loved the bhoy, ‘1 wud waltz wid you in that condishin

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through hell, an so wud the rest av the |

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men.’ Thin I wint down sthrame in he gat an left him mv blessin “--

the Saints earry ut where nt “shad go, for he wad & fine upstandin young orficer.

“To reshume! Fwhal 6 daid just shows the use av 8-year-olds Wud 50

We was marchin |

| YOUN. Teed ties win. wa wy case Ue | av that great little man Bobs, behind a good orficer ‘tisn't only dacoits they'd | (@ | smash wid their clo'es off—'tis con-ti vental ar-r-r-mies! They tuk Lungtang. | pen vakid, an they’d take St. Pethers. | | burg in their dhrawers! Begad, they | , wud that! | ‘‘Tiere’s your pipe, sorr! Shmoke her | tinderly wid honey dew afther lettin | the reek av the canteen plug die away | But ‘tis no good, thanks to you all the same, Hllin my pouch wid your chopped | bhoosa. Canteen baccy's like the army. | Ut shpoiis a man’s taste for moilder | things. "’ So saying, Mulvaney took up his bus- | terfly net and returned to barracks.

Keconomizing Space. Father—Don't you know that smok- | ing will stop your growth? Johnny—Sure! That's why I do it. | There won’t be room for me in the flat | if 1 grow any more.—New York Jour- | ial

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Our Clothing Business has increased to such an extent that we sre compelled to move into larger quarters. We've rented part of the London douss, and intend cutting an arch- way between the two buildings for the purpose of doing a first c ass Gents’ Llothing and Fur- nisling business. Everything kept on the groundfi oor. We expect to move our cloth- ing in about the roth of November, and he- fore removing we must reduce our large stock,

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