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To: Little Ray

A scrimmage in a Border Station-
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.
The Crammer’s boast, the Squadron’s pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_arith.htm


23 posted on 10/16/2012 7:27:52 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Every officer and NCO should have been issued a book of Kipling’s poetry with “Arithmetic on the Frontier” and “The Grave of a Hundred Head” HIGHLIGHTED!


24 posted on 10/16/2012 8:05:04 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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