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

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

Capitolo 51

papers say, him "you Deport"; the white presses say, him "you Manufacture a soldier";
and it says the same Eurasian, me "Factory a Commissioner, or it gives me a
pension." In the meantime, while nothing is done, we can bar to
the Eurasian not to be as we am.

      "I/you/he/she allow us to sit on the thrones
        In a you redden the sublimity,
      And it grinds down the bones of men
        To a pale unanimity."

There is not any correct classification of the mixed run in India as there
it is in America. The convenient term _quadroon_, for example, instead
of "four annases in the rupee", it is rather unknown;  the consequence is
what every one--from Ann Maria the de Souza, the cook "Portuguese" a
noble on which the cheek the best shoe-shiny black he/she would leave a white
marks, to beautiful Miss Fitzalan Courtney, of the Fencibles in Bombay that
it is white as an Italian princess--you/he/she has called a "Eurasian."

"You know, the dear Vanity, that is not impossible that King Asoka
(of the Edict Pillars), the 'Constantine of Buddhism', it was a
Eurasian? I have it didn't find the jobs of Arrian or the Mr. Lethbridge
'History of the World' by hand, but I have some memory of
Sandracottus or one of the fathers of Asoka or grandfather, marrying himself/herself/itself a
Miss Megasthenes or Seleucus. With such memoirs nobody wonders them they call
us 'the Bad Whites.'"--YOU HAUL BABA K.C.B.




No XIV



THE INHABITANT OF A VILLAGE

      "Venio nunc I announce voluptates agricolarum, ego" of quibus (as the
      Commissioners of famine) "incredibiliter delector."


[November 8 th 1879.]

Two people missed me to the assemblage in Delhi of 1877. All the it gram-fed
secretaries and the most greater part of the alcoholic heads were there;  but the
inhabitant of a village famine-infested by the ghosts and the they delirium-smashed, opium-eating
Chinese that had to pay the account is not present.

I cannot understand because Viceroy and the newspapers of English call the
Indian grower one "insurrection." He never amounts to an insurrection if you treat
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