’E’s chawin’ up the ground,

An’ ’e’s kickin’ all around:

For Gawd’s sake git the water, Gunga Din!”

’E carried me away

To where a dooli lay,

An’ a bullet came and drilled the beggar clean.

’E put me safe inside,

An’ just before ’e died:

“I ’ope you like your drink,” sez Gunga Din.

So I’ll meet ’im later on