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The Bridge-Builders

The Bridge-Builders

Kipling, Rudyard

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RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1438523734
ISBN13: 9781438523736
Publisher: Standard Pubn Inc
Published: Aug 3 2009
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
So the bridge was two men's work-unless one counted Peroo, as Peroo certainly counted himself. He was a Lascar, a Kharva from Bulsar, familiar with every port between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of serang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had thrown up the service and gone inland, where men of his calibre were sure of employment. For his knowledge of tackle and the handling of heavy weights, Peroo was worth almost any price he might have chosen to put upon his services; but custom decreed the wage of the overhead-men, and Peroo was not within many silver pieces of his proper value. Neither running water nor extreme heights made him afraid; and, as an ex-serang, he knew how to hold authority. No piece of iron was so big or so badly placed that Peroo could not devise a tackle to lift it-a loose-ended, sagging arrangement, rigged with a scandalous amount of talking, but perfectly equal to the work in hand.

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