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The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly

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61:. As he hastens back from leave (having left all his money apart from loose change behind him), he is beset by misfortune: monsoon rains make him muddy and sweaty; his helmet dissolves in the rain; the dyes of its lining (purple) and his suit (green) run. He falls from his horse, which becomes so lame that he has to walk, whereon he throws away his tie, which has also run, and his (detachable) collar. He arrives at a railway station, buys a drink - and finds that he only has 6 1166: 56:
who prides himself on "looking like 'an Officer and a Gentleman'". According to John McGivering, in the Notes to this story on the Kipling Society's website, Golightly is certainly an officer, but not at all certainly a gentleman. It is clear that he takes too much care over his appearance, and
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left. On talking to the Station Master, he is taken for a deserter, one Private Binkle, and after some temporising is arrested and carried bodily off by four native policeman. They hand him over to a detachment of the British Army, who admire his fluency in bad language, but don't believe his
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published by Macmillan & Co., Limited in London in 1899. The text is that of the third edition (1890), and the author of the article has used his own copy of the 1923 reprint. Further comment, including page-by-page notes, can be found on the Kipling Society's website, at
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insistence that he is an officer. Golightly is finally saved by a Major in his own Regiment, who recognises him and has him released - then, of course, relating the story to the army. Kipling says that he may now publish the story as Golightly has "gone Home".
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in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. The story, published when Kipling was not quite 21 years old, is a well-crafted piece of writing about an essentially schoolboy version of
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dresses rather too flashily, wearing, as he is, a "delicate olive-green suit" with a blue tie and a
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on 23 November 1886 in book form, in the first Indian edition of
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Works originally published in the Civil and Military Gazette
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All quotations in this article have been taken from the
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Index

Rudyard Kipling
Civil and Military Gazette
Plain Tales from the Hills
schadenfreude
slapstick
British Army in India
sola topee
Indian anna
Plain Tales from the Hills
http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_golightly1.htm
"The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly"
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Rudyard Kipling
The Light That Failed
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
Wolcott Balestier
Captains Courageous
Kim
Plain Tales from the Hills
Soldiers Three
The Story of the Gadsbys
In Black and White
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales
Under the Deodars
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories
From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel
Barrack-Room Ballads
Many Inventions

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