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tually eating) in smoking her hookah,^[1] and as most of her visitors did the same, the tiffin-time was very stupid to the little boy; for, instead of pleasant and useful discourse, there was in general nothing to be heard at these meals but the rattling of plates and knives-and-forks, the creaking of the punkah,^[2] and the gurgling of the water in the hookah; except

1. A kind of pipe, the smoke of which is drawn through water, and the motion of the air through the water causes a bubbling noise.
2. A large fan suspended from the ceiling.