Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/30

16 Doubled taxes, cesses all; cleared away each new-built thana;

Turned the two-lakh Hospital into a superb Zenana;

Heaped upon the Bukhshi Sahib wealth and honours manifold;

Clad himself in Eastern garb—squeezed his people as of old.

Happy, happy Kolazai! Never more will Rustum Beg

Play to catch the Viceroy's eye. He prefers the "simpkin" peg.