LETTERS FROM INDIA.
17
I declare that is a very pleasant journal, and I never thought the letters from the ‘Catherine’ could have come up so soon. These journals are very pleasant indeed; I think I could answer them on the spot, only it is’ too dark and too much trouble, and too hot, and too everything. [Music heard.] Well there’s a bagpipe; that’s odd. I will mention that to : national, romantic, and better than a tomtom. Qui hi?
Jemadar. Ladyship?
Lady. Fetch the telescope out of my room.
J. Huninelkawn, Dulhoo, Ameer, fetch glass.
[They all three go and come back, one with the glass, one with the stand, and one with a little table. Lady looks; as usual can't see through it, but, to save appearances, says, without observing that the top is still on the glass,]
Ah! I see. The music is in a boat at Serampore; what does it mean?
J. Rich native, Ladyship, been to fetch wife; hire music to do himself honour. Very fine wedding.
