Hullah ! We do not climb like cats nor run like calves . We go across the level plain , twenty yoke of us , till we are unyoked again , and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls , and pieces of the wall fall out , and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home . '' `` Oh ! And you choose that time for grazing ? '' said the young mule . `` That time or any other . Eating is always good . We eat till we are yoked up again and tug the gun back to where Two Tails is waiting for it . Sometimes there are big guns in the city that speak back , and some of us are killed , and then there is all the more grazing for those that are left . This is Fate . None the less , Two Tails is a great coward . That is the proper way to fight . We are brothers from Hapur . Our father was a sacred bull of Shiva . We have spoken . '' `` Well , I 've certainly learned something tonight , '' said the troop-horse . `` Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns , and Two Tails is behind you ? '' `` About as much as we feel inclined to sit down and let men sprawl all over us , or run into people with knives . I never heard such stuff .
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