And the heart of young Jehangir, like the dove, had found its mate.
[SHURFU THE ZAILDAR][[13]]
Then you'll give me a character, won't you? and say I'm a first-class zaildâr.
Not a man of them's done half so much as old Shurfu to please the Sirkâr.
Why, I've brought you full forty "suspected ones"; that isn't bad as a haul.
Look you! forty "suspected ones" present, and gone bail myself for them all.
And a word, sahib--for your ear alone--if you'd like me to bring a few more,
Just to make a round fifty on paper, and show that the work's to the fore--
Bismillah! they never shall say, while old Shurfu is one of the crew,
That his district sahib's schedules were shaky for want of a budmâsh[[14]] or two.