morning, noon
Until the British came and overthrew our Sikh kingdom -- and that was not long ago -- loot was the staff of life of all Sikh armies . In those days when an army needed pay there was a war . Now , except for one month 's pay that , as I have told , the Germans had given us , we had seen no money since the day when we surrendered in that Flanders trench ; and what the Germans gave us Ranjoor Singh took away , in order to bribe the captain of a Turkish ship . And Gooja Singh swore morning , noon and night that as prisoners of war we should not be entitled to pay from the British in any event , even supposing we could ever contrive to find the British and rejoin them . `` Let us loot , then , and pay ourselves ! '' was the unanimous verdict , I being about the only one who did not voice it . I claim no credit .