…I took a chapatti and a handful of chilis, gave the time of day to a naik with the Sobraon medal, and passed on, drawn by the distant pig-squeal of pipes that always makes my dear wife burst into tears—ah, we’ve our own home-grown savages in tow, have we, thinks I. But they weren’t Highlanders, just the Royals. Flashman and the Dragon, p.45, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.
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