Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

Capitolo 30

of the three or four years ago it said that he would have gotten rather a Political
Agent, with raja the chuprassies,[H] and all suit, to take
house, that the unfigureds "they are a mime" of Beluchistan or the sea-yes-ee
mocking bird, _Kokiolliensis Lyttonia_. But the Political agent is not able
house is taken. Flower reddens him it is grown weak in the disdainful climate of
England; the passages to the fashion and paralytics in the imbecility pure and simple;  the
thirteen-gun that talked tall reverberates in mocking echo;  the chuprassies
it is only this way many black men, and the raja is felt a joke be. The
Political agent cannot live over Aden.

The Government of India holds his/her Political Agents sprinkled on the
is native in the small stations of jungle. It furnishes them with
maharajas, nawabs, rajas and chuprassies, according to their line,
and it usually throws in a house, a gaol, a doctor a volume of
The Essays of Aitchison, an escort of native Cavalry, a Stella of India,
an assistant, the powers of a judge of first category, a flag-one man show,
six camels, three curtains and a regard of eleven or thirteen
guns. In very a lot of cases that the Government of India names
a Political Agent to the line of Child-to-a-Lieut.-governor,
Child-in-law-to-a-Lieut.-governor, Child-to-a-member-of-suggestion or
Child-to-a-agent-to-the-governor-general. Those that are elevated this way
to the Anglo-Indian need of peer it doesn't have thought for the that tomorrow that
they will do, what they will say, or material that they will be
provisioned with a knowledge of Oriental language and he/she reads western.
Nature dresses them with quantity in increase of gold lace and starry
ornaments and that fascinating, if impudent, female--God that Lytton implores
me to write her/it "maid"--Miss Anglo-Indian Promotion, goes skipping about around
among them likes a cheerful kangaroo.

The Politicalses are a Greek choir in our popular caricature, "Empire."
The Foreign Secretary is the prompter. The society is composed of
nawabs and rajas (with the Duke of Buckingham as a "super"). God
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