| Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 380 pages
...Gunga talks good talk. I told that to the padre-sahib who preached on the MomThe Day's Work. 3 bassa, and he asked the Burra Malum to put me in irons for...see that Mother Gunga can avenge no insult, and they will fall away from her first, and later from us all, one by one. In the end, Ganesh, we are left with... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 416 pages
...are drawn together by the firecarriage, and the money comes and goes swiftly, and the account- books grow as fat as — myself. And I, who am Ganesh of...by one. In the end, Ganesh, we are left with naked altars.7 The drunken Man staggered to his feet, and hiccupped vehemently in the face of the assembled... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1909 - 406 pages
...made them are scarcely yet cold," said the Mugger. "To-morrow their Gods will die." "Ho!" said Pcroo. "Mother Gunga talks good talk. I told that to the...it pleases the dirt," answered the Elephant. "But afterward?" said the Tiger. "Afterward they will see that Mother Gunga can avenge no insult, and they... | |
| Zohreh T. Sullivan - 1993 - 216 pages
...builders because they have profited his "fat money lenders." He is perhaps the most cynical of the gods: "It is but the shifting of a little dirt. Let the dirt dig in the dirt if it pleases the dirt " (DW 26). Ironically, the gods who support the bridge builders are wrong in their assumptions. Ganesh's... | |
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