The Archive · 1927

A Sahib Matches Their Skill

As if our mental query had been radiated li the manner of wireless, he who has functioned as Master of Coremonies—or perhaps it was as /stage manager—ostensibly an officer of the Regiment, rushes forward and [gives an exhibition which rouses plaudit upon plaudit, His study of these matters has evidently been both intensive and exhaustive, There is nothing that the most experienced Swordsman among them does but that he does as well. We breathe a prayer that we may forever be unknown to him, lest we inadvertently give offence afd are challenged to an encounter, The coroner would be obliged to pick us up with blotting paper!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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