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LETTERS FROM INDIA.

L. That will be something for my letter to ——; give the ignorant European child an idea of Indian customs, also mention to her that to make the music of the bagpipe pleasant it is as well to station the piper in the Danish territories and to remain yourself in the British dominions, with water between the two. In England this might be done with even better effect than at Barrackpore; the distance of Copenhagen would perhaps render the effect still more pleasing! it would be more softened, harmonised, subdued; you would hardly know it was a bagpipe.

[A white goat rushes by, followed by a man and then a deer and then another man, all running as hard as they can.]

L. Qui hi?

J. Ladyship.

L. Tell that man not to hunt Sulema, and tell the other man not to hunt the choota lady’s deer.

[The Jemadar talks the gibberish which the natives are pleased to call Hindustani and says,]

By your favour, Ladyship, the doorias say the goat afraid of the deer and the deer afraid

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