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"They came like locusts," growls one of the sowars round the fire.

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'I can find six old Company sowars who will ride round Jehannum and back for a rupee a day and whatever spoil the campaign promises,' says I to the noseless pig who is master of her cavalry, 'if ye have six good beasts to put under them.

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The matter of disguise reminded me that I was still stark naked, and shivering; I told him I wanted a kit exactly like that of his sowars, and he swore I'd have it, and a pony, too.

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And then he flung his arms round me, roaring, and danced me about while the sowars* (* Troopers.) grinned and nudged each other.

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"'There is a furnace thrice-heated waiting," says one of the sowars.

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"Your colonel won't mind, I'm sure, if I put it to one of his own sowars - don't fret, Smith, he's a safe man."

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However, it had to be stuck out - I just had to think of Ignatieff - so I would trudge back to barracks and lie glowering while the sowars chattered.

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One of Ilderim's sowars was ostentatiously cleaning his Khyber knife with a handful of leaves, and presently a third came padding out of the dark.

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"For we have heard of Meerut," says he, as he drew me in to the fire, and the half-dozen sowars crouched round it made space for us.

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One of the sowars says: "There will be a red thread round her wrist, as for a Ghazi."

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