glo-Indian classic.

LONDON

September, 1910.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. WITH THE VICEROY

II. THE A.-D.-C.-IN-WAITING, AN ARRANGEMENT IN SCARLET AND GOLD

III. WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

IV. WITH THE ARCHDEACON, A MAN OF BOTH WORLDS

V. WITH THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

VI. H.E. THE BENGALI BABOO

VII. WITH THE RAJA

VIII. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENT, A MAN IN BUCKRAM

IX. WITH THE COLLECTOR

X. BABY IN PARTIBUS

XI. THE RED CHUPRASSIE; OR, THE CORRUPT LICTOR

XII. THE PLANTER; A FARMER PRINCE

XIII. THE EURASIAN; A STUDY IN CHIARO-OSCURO

XIV. THE VILLAGER

XV. THE OLD COLONEL

XVI. THE CIVIL SURGEON

XVII. THE SHIKARRY

XVIII. THE GRASS-WIDOW IN NEPHELOCOCCYGIA

XIX. THE TRAVELLING M.P., THE BRITISH LION RAMPANT

XX. MEM-SAHIB

XXI. ALI BABA ALONE; THE LAST DAY

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EXTRACTS FROM "SERIOUS REFLECTIONS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS"

BY "OUR POLITICAL ORPHAN"

_Bombay Gazette Press_, 1881.

THE TEAPOT SERIES:

SOCIAL DISSECTION

SAHIB

THE GRYPHON'S ANABASIS

THE ORPHAN'S GOOD RESOLUTIONS

SOME OCCULT PHENOMENA

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ELUCIDATIONS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:

THE TRAVELLING M.P.

THE A.D.C. IN WAITING

THE ARCHDEACON

THE BENGALI BABOO

THE POLITICAL AGENT

THE RED CHUPRASSIE

THE PLANTER

THE EURASIAN

THE OLD COLONEL

THE GRASS-WIDOW

No. I

WITH THE VICEROY

[August 2, 1879.]

It is certainly a little intoxicating to spend a day with the Great
Ornamental. You do not see much of him perhaps; but he is a Presence
to be felt, something floating loosely about in wide epicene
pantaloons and flying skirts, diffusing as he passes the fragrance of
smile and pleasantry and cigarette. The air around him is laden with
honeyed murmurs; gracious whispers play about the twitching bewitching
corners of his delicious mouth. He calls everything by "soft names in
many a mused rhyme." Deficits, Public Works, and Cotton Duties are
transmuted by the alchemy of his gaiety into sunshine and songs. An
office-box on his writing-table an office-box is to him, and it is
something more: it holds cigarettes. No one knows what sweet thoughts
are his as Chloe flutters through the room, blushful and startled, or
as a fres