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Rung Ho!
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Rung Ho!, by Talbot Mundy (#2 in our series by Talbot Mundy)
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Title: Rung Ho!
Author: Talbot Mundy
Release Date: February, 2004 [EBook #5153] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on May 16, 2002]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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RUNG HO! A Novel by Talbot Mundy
RUNG HO!
CHAPTER I
Howrah City bows the knee More or less to masters three, King, and Prince, and Siva. Howrah City pays in pain Taxes which the royal twain Give to priests, to give again (More or less) to Siva.
THAT was no time or place for any girl of twenty to be wandering unprotected. Rosemary McClean knew it; the old woman, of the sweeper caste, that is