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They were picking them up at almost every station now—men and women coming in for the Christmas Week, with racquets, with bundles of polo-sticks, with dear and bruised cricket-bats, with fox-terriers and saddles. The greater part of them wore jackets like William’s, for the Northern cold is as little to be trifled with as the Northern heat. |
this is from “William the Conqueror“, collected in The Day’s Work. Here, at the end of the tale, a group from the Punjab, who have spent hard week’s in the south on famine relief, are joining the throng coming up to Lahore for Christmas from other stations.. It is a romantic tale, affectionately told, for two of them have fallen in love and agreed to marry |
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