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‘…Out he goes, looking neither right nor left, and when he was in the middle of those dizzy dancing ropes, ‘Cut you beggars,’ he shouts; and they cut, and old Dan fell, turning round and round and round, twenty thousand miles, for he took half an hour to fall till he struck the water, and I could see his body caught on a rock with the golden crown close beside…’ |
This is from “The Man who Would be King”, in Wee Willie Winkie. Two adventurers, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, have made themselves kings of a remote mountain kingdom in Kafiristan, by persuading the people that they are Gods. But when Dan seeks a wife, she finds that he is ‘Neither God nor Devil but a man !’ and the people take a terrible revenge. |
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