The Eyes of Asia. Rudyard Kipling

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СКАЧАТЬ But that is not his offence. He sends me postcards, Sahib – scores of postcards – whining about the drouth or the taxes, or the crops, or our servants' pilferings or some such trouble. He doesn't know what trouble means. I want to tell him he is a fool… What? True! True! One can get money and land but never a new brother. But for all that, he is a fool… Is he a good farmer? Sa-heeb! If an Amritsar Sikh isn't a good farmer, a hen doesn't know an egg… Is he honest? As my own pet yoke of bullocks. He is only a fool. My belly is on fire now with knowledge I never had before, and I wish to impart it to him – to the village elders – to all people. Yes, that is true, too. If I keep calling him a fool, he will not gain any knowledge… Let me think it over on all sides! Aha! Now that I have a bazar-writer of my own I will write a book – a very book of a letter to my fool of a brother… And now we will begin. Take down my words from my lips to my foolish old farmer-brother: —

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      The royal clans of the Rajputs derive their descent from the Sun.

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The royal clans of the Rajputs derive their descent from the Sun.

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