Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/78

64 Next the sleepy van Babu wake,

Book a Kalka van "for four."

Few, I think, will care to make

Journeys with me any more

As they used to do of yore.

I shall need a "special" break—

Thing I never took before—

Get me one for old sake's sake.

After that—arrangements make,

No hotel will take me in,

And a bullock's back would break

'Neath the teak and leaden skin.

Tonga-ropes are frail and thin,

Or, did I a back seat take,

In a tonga I might spin,

Do your best for old sake's sake.

After that—your work is done.

Recollect a Padre must

Mourn the dear departed one—

Throw the ashes and the dust.

Don't go down at once. I trust

You will find excuse to "snake