Rung Ho!

Aie! Did you hear him reprimand me? By the beard of God’s prophet, that is a man of men! So was his father! Now I will tell Alwa and the others that I bring a man to them! By the teeth of God and my own honor I will swear to it! His first tiger –he had never seen a tiger! –in the dark, and unexpected –caught by it, to all seeming, like a trapped man in a cage –no lamp –no help at hand, or so he thought until it was all over. And he ran at the tiger! And then, ‘you come with your shoes on, Mahommed Gunga –why, forsooth?’ Did you hear him? By the blood of Allah, we have a man to lead us!