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...Sundra, a caravansary in the salt wastes of the Thar, Pakistani irregulars were doing their laundry one morning when an Indian 3-in. mortar shell slammed into their midst. Killed: a brown goat. The Paks - camel-riding Indus Rangers and bearded Hur rifle men - ducked behind mud walls and blazed back in the best Gunga Din fashion. A strafing run by Indian Vampire jets failed to dislodge the Pakistanis -indeed, they reported, did not even disturb the vultures circling overhead...
...With all thar mycht and all thar mayne...
...HAAALLLOOO DOWN THAR...
...diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired good, is another thang...
Kensett, Arkansas, where Mills was raised, is said to have got its name when a Missouri Pacific agent, seeking advice about a railroad station site, was told: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Mills's Second Arkansas District abounds in picturesque place names: Morning Sun is 75 miles from Evening Shade, and other places are named Joy. Romance, Rose Bud and Oil Trough. The son of a prosperous Kensett merchant and banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank...