Capitolo 2
VII. WITH THE RAJA
VIII. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENT, A MAN IN RIGID CLOTH
IX. WITH THE COLLECTOR
X. CHILD IN PARTIBUS
XI. THE CHUPRASSIE ROSSO; OR, THE LICTOR CORROTTO
XII. THE PLANTER; A GROWER PRINCE
XIII. THE EURASIAN; A STUDY IN CLEAR-DARK
XIV. THE INHABITANT OF A VILLAGE
XV. THE OLD COLONEL
XVI. THE CIVIL SURGEON
XVII. THE SHIKARRY
XVIII. THE GRASS-WIDOW IN NEPHELOCOCCYGIA
XIX. THE M.P VIAGGIANTE., THE RAMPANT LEO BRITANNICO
XX. MEM-SAHIB
XXI. WINGS BABA ALONE; THE LAST DAY
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EXTRACTED FROM "SERIOUS REFLECTIONS AND THE OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS"
FROM THE "OUR POLITICAL ORPHAN"
_Bombay Gazette Press_, 1881.
THE TEAPOT SERIOUS:
SOCIAL DISSECTION
SAHIB
THE ANABASIS OF THE GRYPHON
THE GOOD DECISIONS OF THE ORPHAN
OF THE HIDDEN PHENOMENONS
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ELUCIDATIONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
THE M.P VIAGGIANTE.
THE A.D.C. ON CALL
THE ARCHDEACON
THE BABOO BENGALI
THE POLITICAL AGENT
THE CHUPRASSIE ROSSO
THE PLANTER
THE EURASIAN
THE OLD COLONEL
THE GRASS-WIDOW
No Me
WITH THE VICEROY
[August 2 nd 1879.]
Certainly it is a little inebriating to spend one day with the Gran
Ornamental. You don't perhaps see him/it very of; but he is a Presence
to be felt, anything being floating freely around in wide epicene
pantaloons and skirts volatrici, spreading as he passes the fragrance of
smile and the cheerfulness and cigarette. The air around him is loaded with
honeyed murmurs; attractive play of whispers around to bewitch that it twists
angles of his/her delicious mouth. He calls all from "soft names in
a lot of a rhyme of mused." Deficit, Jobs Public, and the Cotton Duties are
transformed by the alchemy of his/her cheerfulness in light of the sun and songs. A
office-box on his/her write-table an office-box is to him, and it is
anything more: it contains cigarettes. What thoughts sweet nobody knows