 eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an  The Harvard Monthly - Page 61899Full view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 368 pages
...gives us the soldier with a grievance and a very real grievance it is. We aren't no thin red heroes, we aren't no blackguards too But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, An' Tommy, "Pall be'ind," But it's " Please to walk in front,... | |
 | 1892 - 744 pages
...thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable hke you ; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints. While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, fall be'ind ' ; But it's 'Please to walk in front,... | |
 | 1898 - 424 pages
...to describe the British soldier as he exists in India to-day, and, as "Tommy" says: "An" if sometime our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints." Kipling does not describe these men as worse than they really are, and fidelity to his subject demands... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1890 - 294 pages
...when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, etc. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints. While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy fall be'ind ; " But it's "Please to walk in front,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1892 - 286 pages
...roll, O it's ' Thin red line of 'eroes' when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' ' Tommy, fall be'ind,' But it's ' Please to walk in front,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1893 - 246 pages
...roll, O it's 'Thin red line of 'eroes ' when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints ; While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, fall be'ind,' But it's 'Please to walk in front,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894 - 624 pages
...us the soldier with a grievance and a very real grievance it is. We aren't no thin red heroes, \ve aren't no blackguards too But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, An' Tommy, " Fall be'ind," But it's " Please to walk in front,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 370 pages
...gives us the soldier with a grievance and a very real grievance it is. We aren't no thin red heroes, we aren't no blackguards too But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, An' Tommy, "Fall be'ind," But it's " Please to walk in front,... | |
 | 1895 - 910 pages
...uniform — he is a man and a brother. Let him speak for himself: 11 We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints." If Mr. Kipling had done no more than create "Soldiers Three" he would have earned the aïo July, 1895]... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 400 pages
...roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints ; While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, fall be'ind," But it's " Please to walk in front,... | |
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