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Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly Kipling, Rudyard
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1888
THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY

by Rudyard Kipling










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ARREST_OF_GOLIGHTLY
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'I've forgotten the countersign,' sez'e.
'Oh! You 'ave, 'ave you?' sez I.
'But I'm the Colonel,' sez 'e.
'Oh! You are, are you?' sez I. 'Colonel or nor Colonel, you waits
'ere till I'm relieved, an' the Sarjint reports on your ugly old
mug. оChoop!'п * sez I.
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* In DOS versions italicized text is enclosed in оchevronsп.
{ARREST_OF_GOLIGHTLY ^paragraph 5}
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An' s'elp me soul, 'twas the Colonel after all! But I was a recruity
then.
-The Unedited Autobiography of Private Ortheris.
{ARREST_OF_GOLIGHTLY ^paragraph 10}
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IF there was one thing on which Golightly prided himself more than
another, it was looking like 'an Officer and a Gentleman.' He said
it was for the honour of the Service that he attired himself so
elaborately; but those who knew him best said that it was just
personal vanity. There was no harm about Golightly- not an ounce. He