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No. XI.

THE RED CHUPRASSIE;

OR, THE CORRUPT LICTOR.[1]




The red chuprassie is our Colorado beetle, our potato disease, our Home Ruler, our cupboard skeleton, the little rift in our lute. The red-coated chuprassie is a cancer in our Administration. To be rid of it there is hardly any surgical operation we would not cheerfully undergo. You might extract the

  1. The chuprassies are official messengers, wearing Imperial livery, who are attached to civil officers in India.