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stockings, blue bonnets, blue bottles, blue beards and blue coats.
For further information of some kind I can only report me him to the Mr. Caird
and the _Nineteenth Century_.
Some Planters grow tea, coffee, lac, mother-of-pearl, brines,
poppadums and dust of curry--but I am now becoming encyclopaedic and
scientific, and already going over the limits of the licit on earth taken above by the Famine
Committee.
I now lead Planters they are killed by wild camels that err on the mango
fields but a lot of damage anchor is made to the prickly one
pear-trees. The Mr. Cunningham has written an interesting note on this.
Rewards still owed to be offered for dead tigers and people that have
dead because of hunger. "When the Government won't give a doit to
you raise a lame mendicant, they will place out ten to see a dead Indian."--
YOU HAUL BABA K.C.B.
No XIII
THE EURASIAN
A STUDY IN CLEAR-DARK
[The illustration: The eurasian--"A study in clear dark."]
[November 1 st 1879.]
The Anglo-Indian has a very excellent eye for colour. He will reduce
"an anna in the rupee" with infallible certainty; he will suspect
smaller coin. He will tell him how he can discover a he/she corrupted
European from his/her knuckles, his/her fingernails, his/her eyebrows, his/her pronunciation
of the vowels and his/her conception of convenience in suit, way, and
behavior.
To the complete-cross Anglo-Indian through which blood has distilled
Haileybury for three generations, and of who cousins to the quarter
degree is Collectors and Indian Managed Colonels, the Eurasian, however
equitable he can be, it is a _bete noir_. Mrs. Ellenborough Higgins is always
putting or sharpening to black blood.
And sometimes the whitey-brown man is deplorable. He is vain, proper
to take offense, astute, indolent, sensuous and, as Reuben, "unstable
how water." He has an easy smile, a clammy hand a way or
directly or respectful, an affected gait, and not always the snowiest
flax. [In very dangerous cases he has a particular sense of smell.]
Toward natives the Eurasian is cold, haughty, and formal; and this