Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...us, their component parts not always scientifically selected. In one band of five performers three had drums, which produce a maximum of noise with a minimum of education, and are therefore always popular; one had cymbals, and the fifth an uncertain-looking brass instrument capable of ear-splitting sounds. The musicians were gaily clothed and looked much like monkeys of a larger growth escaped from barrel organs. In the evening I gave cakes and sweetmeats to the servants' children, little ragged mites with eager faces, which shone with delight as the sweets were poured into the dirty little chudders they held up. Afterwards we had a few fire-AMATEUR FIREWORKS. 131 works for their amusement--few, and often far between--for the servants could not always induce them to go off. But then the excitement when they did! It was much greater than if there had been any certainty. One ' anar, ' which had sulkily and long refused to explode, did so at last so unexpectedly and with so tremendous a bang that the ayah who was standing behind my chair fell flat down. Carlie was wrapped in breathless admiration, with his nose flattened against the nursery window. CHAPTER XXVIII. METEORIC FLIGHT THROUGH INDIA HAILSTORM JUMNA CANAL--MISFORTUNES NEVER COME SINGLE--TIDE OF LIFE FLOWING PAST OUR COMPOUND SIGNS OF HOT SEASON--' FOWLS OF THE AIR MAKE NESTS NATIVE CHRISTIANS---A BEGGING LETTER. Sahdranpiir, Jan. 3, 1881.--Mr. Elliot, the Census Commissioner, has just been with us for a day or two, on his meteoric flight through India. He has not long been out from England, but has visited Bombay, Madras, Mysore, Burmah, Calcutta, and Allahabad, and is now rushing through Lahore and Mooltan to Kurrachi, then to Bombay and across again to Calcutta, before making a..
