Red Records - Softcover

Perrin, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1230237631 ISBN 13: 9781230237633

Verlag: TheClassics.us, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... JUSTICE The long day's work in field and jungle was over, the sunset meal had been prepared and eaten, and the dusty little Indian village lay quiet save for a monotonous murmur of voices, and the lowing of cattle penned into safety for the night. Light wreaths of smoke from fires that had cooked the rice and chupattis hung to the mud walls, twined among the branches of the old pipal tree, and mingled with the pungent fumes of the hookah that was being passed around the group of villagers squatted about the giant roots. To-day this jungle hamlet, that lay far from the life of great cities and populous districts, had been stirred to intense excitement by the rare visit of an English official, whose camp now gleamed white in the mango-grove half a mile away. The head-man and elders of the village had spent busy hours in front of the great square tent wherein the magistrate had sat and received their petitions, examined accounts, listened to complaints, and administered justice. Now the evening talk over the evening hookah on the spot that constituted the public meetingplace, club-house, and council-chamber of the village, was of the sahib and his curious habits, his strange clothing, the furniture in the tent, his judgments and decisions, and the offensiveness of his swaggering Mahomedan butler, who had demanded eggs and milk for his master's table. Abstract questions concerning the white people were also earnestly discussed, such as how far the theory was correct that poison lay under their nails, which compelled them to eat with knives and forks instead of with their fingers like reasonable beings. Also whether the existence of "the Momiai-walla Sahib " was an actual fact--that dreaded Government official whose reputed duty it was to...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TheClassics.us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230237631
• ISBN 13: 9781230237633
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64