the Company?"

"Only go to India; that's all."

"And what should I do in India?"

"Fight, my brave boy! fight, my youthful hero!"

"What kind of country is India?"

"The finest country in the world! Rivers, bigger than the Ouse. Hills,
higher than anything near Spalding! Trees--you never saw such trees!
Fruits--you never saw such fruits!"

"And the people--what kind of folk are they?"

"Pah! Kauloes--blacks--a set of rascals not worth regarding."

"Kauloes!" said I; "blacks!"

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

"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