uloes!" said I; "blacks!"

"Yes," said the recruiting sergeant; "and they call us lolloes, which, in
their beastly gibberish, means red."

"Lolloes!" said I; "reds!"

"Yes," said the recruiting sergeant, "kauloes and lolloes; and all the
lolloes have to do is to kick and cut down the kauloes, and take from
them their rupees, which mean silver money. Why do you stare so?"

"Why," said I, "this is the very language of Mr. Petulengro."

"Mr. Pet--?"

"Yes," said I, "and Tawno Chikno."

"Tawno Chik--? I say, young fellow, I don't like your way of speaking;
no, nor your way of looking. You are mad, sir; you are mad; and what's
this? Why, your hair is grey! You won't do for the Honourable
Company--they like red. I'm glad I didn't give you the shilling. Good
day to you."

"I shouldn't wonder," said I, as I proceeded rapidly along a broad
causeway, in the direction of the east, "if Mr. Petulengro and Tawno
Chikno came originally from India. I think I'll go there."

APPENDIX

CHAPTER I--A Word for Lavengro.

Lavengro is the history up to a certain period of one of rather a
peculiar mind and system of nerves, with an exterior shy and cold, under
which lurk much curiosity, especially with regard to what is wild and
extraordinary, a considerable quantity of energy and industry, and an
unconquerable love of independence. It narrates his earliest dreams and
feelings, dwells with minuteness on the ways, words, and characters of
his father, mother, and brother, lingers on the occasional resting-places
of his wandering half military childhood, describes the gradual hardening
of his bodily frame by robust exercises, his successive struggles, after
his family and himself have settled down in a small local capital, to
obtain knowledge of every kind, but more particularly philological lore;
his visits to the tent of the Romany chal, and the parlour of the Anglo-
German philosopher; the effect produced upon his character by his
flinging himself into contact with people all widely differing from each
other, but all extraordinary; his reluctance to settle down to the
ordinary pursuits of life; his struggles after moral truth; his glimpses
of God and the obscuration of the Divine Being, to his mind's eye; and
his being cast upon the world of London by the death of his father, at
the age of nineteen. In the world within a world, the world of London,
it shows him playing his part for some time as he best can, in t