L'Amour Cowboys Kipling & Afghans

"That English lord, he I guided to his hunting. He was a dry lonely man ... He spoke of his fighting the Afghans ... 'Our enemies then,' he said to me, 'but damn fine fighters. Bold rascals and hard to kill, men who fought for the love of it.' He used to recite Kipling to me." --from Passin' Through, Louis L'Amour, 1985