Rudyard Kipling

Name: Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
Author: Rudyard Kipling

Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

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“Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, published in 1889, is a work by Rudyard Kipling. It explores elements such as Umritsar, constables and booking.

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Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

“ He was half in and half out of a shirt as nearly in two pieces as it could be, and he was begging the guard to look at the name on the tail of it. As he had rucked the shirt all over his head, I couldn't at first see who he was, but I fancied that he was a man in the first stage of D. T. from the way he swore while he wrestled with his rags. When he turned round, and I had made allowance for a lump as big as a pork-pie over one eye, and some green war-paint on the face, and some violet stripes round the neck, I saw that it was Golightly. ”

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Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

“ It was fairly warm at Dalhousie, and knowing what to expect below, he descended in a new khaki suit—tight fitting—of a delicate olive-green; a peacock-blue tie, white collar, and a snowy white solah helmet. He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post. He did look neat, and he was so deeply concerned about his appearance before he started that he quite forgot to take anything but some small change with him. He left all his notes at the hotel. His servants had gone down the road before him, to be ready in waiting at Pathankote with a change of gear. ”

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Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

“ Three miles from Pathankote the last pony fell dead lame, and Golightly was forced to walk. He pushed on into Pathankote to find his servants. He did not know then that his khitmatgar had stopped by the roadside to get drunk, and would come on the next day saying that he had sprained his ankle. When he got into Pathankote, he couldn't find his servants, his boots were stiff and ropy with mud, and there were large quantities of dirt about his body. The blue tie had run as much as the khaki. So he took it off with the collar and threw it away. ”

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Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

“ Now the butt of a Martini in the small of your back hurts a great deal, and rotten, rain-soaked khaki tears easily when two men are jerking at your collar.
Golightly rose from the floor feeling very sick and giddy, with his shirt ripped open all down his breast and nearly all down his back. He yielded to his luck, and at that point the down-train from Lahore came in carrying one of Golightly's Majors. ”

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Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

“ There was a very fair scuffle all round the booking-office, and Golightly received a nasty cut over his eye through falling against a table. But the constables were too much for him, and they and the Station-Master handcuffed him securely. As soon as the mail-bag was slipped, he began expressing his opinions, and the head-constable said:—"Without doubt this is the soldier-Englishman we required. Listen to the abuse!" ”

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Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

“ The four constables saw him safe to Umritsar in an "intermediate" compartment, and he spent the four-hour journey in abusing them as fluently as his knowledge of the vernaculars allowed.
At Umritsar he was bundled out on the platform into the arms of a Corporal and two men of the — — Regiment. Golightly drew himself up and tried to carry off matters jauntily. He did not feel too jaunty in handcuffs, with four constables behind him, and the blood from the cut on his forehead stiffening on his left cheek. The Corporal was not jocular either. ”

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Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills — The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly (1889)

“ The booking-clerk said something to the Station-Master, the Station-Master said something to the Telegraph Clerk, and the three looked at him with curiosity. They asked him to wait for half-an-hour, while they telegraphed to Umritsar for authority. So he waited, and four constables came and grouped themselves picturesquely round him. Just as he was preparing to ask them to go away, the Station-Master said that he would give the Sahib a ticket to Umritsar, if the Sahib would kindly come inside the booking-office. ”

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