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Show THE KIPLINGLESS CAMPAIGN. (Arthur Chapman in Denver Republican. ' A mixed force of British and Indian troops is being rapidly mobilized near Pesawur for another punitive expedition I against the fanatical Pathans who have been raiding and looting villages on the border. Simla Dispatch. "Wot are the bugles blowin' for?" said Fyles-on-Parade; "To kill 'em off, to kill 'em off," the color sergeant said; "Wot's all the bloomin' row about?" said Fyles-on-Parade: "The Pathans are a-raisin' Cain," the color sergeant said: We are gettln out machine guns for to mow the heathen down. We are goin' out a-huntin', and we'll bring no game to town; We are KOin' to civilize 'em. and we'll do the job up brown But we 'aven't sent for Kipling in the morning." "Wot nary poet on the job?" asked Fyles-on-Parade : "You'w sized the situation right," the color sergeant said: " 'Ow can you 'ope to win the scrap?" said Fyles-on-Parade; "There ain't no poet ever 'elped," the color sergeant said: "So there'll be no 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy' and there'll be no 'Gunga. Din;' There'll be no 'Danny Deever,' nor Mul- vaney with his gin: In fact there'll be no scribblin' when we rake the beggars in I 'Cause we 'aven't sent for Kipling In the morning.'' |
