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it; so interesting that you will feel sorry he is not speaking the
General governor above to Peterhoff.
[But I feel that an Agent to the general Governor is looking on mine
takes on the shoulders, so perhaps me it had better lock; although I know two or three
things on Politicals.]--the Lord Wings BABA, K.C.B. [L]
No IX
WITH THE COLLECTOR
[October 4 th 1879.]
It was not it the Episcopalian one of Bombay that said that man it was an automaton
anymore the mirror of conscience? The Government of every Indian
province is anymore an automaton the mirror of conscience. The
Secretariat is conscience, and the Collectors form the automaton.
The Collector works, and the Secretariat observes and records.
To the people of India the Collector is the Imperial Government. Him
clocks on their welfare in the a lot of facets that reflect ours
civilisation. He establishes schools and pharmacies [for them
children], gaols [for their annoying relationships and neighbours], and
short of justice [for the benefit of their brothers that you/they can speak and
writes]. He imposes the lease of their fields, he mends the rate, and
him nomination to every appointment, from that of road-street sweeper or
constable, to the great officers blood-suckling rounds off the Court and
Treasury. As for Boards of Income and Lieutenant-governors that
every now and then comes sweeping through the country with their innkeepers of locust,
of servants and small officers, they is, but an occasional nightmare;
while the general Governor is in the background a mere shade of
thought, half mixed with "John Company Bahadur" and the other myths of
the dawn.
The Collector lives in a wandering and long bungalow folding up furnished of
chairs and tables, and in every way marked by the provisional one
setups of the life of field. He seems to have arrived as soon as from out of
the firmament of green fields and groves of mango that surround the
small station where him alive; or he almost seems to pass away
in him again. The hunting-howdahs you/he/she is lying in the porch, the