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An Ignorant in India. By R. E. Vernède, Author of 'The Fair Dominion.' Crown 8vo, 5s. net.
CONTENTS.—The First Day in India—A Ride round a Dead Water City—At the Club in the Mofussil—A Camp near the Pelicans—The Collector and the Tiger—Ou-opp Sahib—From a Bengal Verandah—Hamlet at a Bengal Fair—Speech Day in Crocodile Country—The Patwari and the Peacock—A Tramp through the Jungle—The Meet, and the Parting.
"What's the matter?" I asked; "what does the man want?"
The ticket-collector gave that pleased and deprecating smirk with which a native called upon to exercise his English usually opens.
"He want your paper of the luggage," said he.
"Is that all," I said; "what does he want it for?"
"He want it," said the Babu, "because he say that your are so iggnorant that perhaps you lose the paper of the luggage. He say you give it to him. He not lose it."
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