Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

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Title: Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot
Series
Author: George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
Release Date: July 31, 2004 [eBook #13068]
Language: English
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TeamTWENTY-ONE DAYS IN INDIA
Or, The Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.
and THE TEAPOT SERIES
by
GEORGE R. ABERIGH-MACKAY
Sometime Principal of the Rajkumar College Indore
Ninth Edition with New Illustrations and Elucidations
1914
[Illustration: THE TRAVELLING M.P.—"The British
Lion rampant."]PUBLISHERS' PREFACE
In this edition it has been considered advisable to
reproduce, verbatim, only the "Twenty-one Days"
as originally published in Vanity Fair, the additional
series of six included in several editions of the book
issued after the Author's death being omitted.
The twenty-one papers in question have been
supplemented by contributions to The Bombay
Gazette, which appeared in that daily newspaper
during the whole of the year 1880, the year before
the Author's death, under the nom de plume of
"Our Political Orphan;" and the Publishers beg to
tender their best thanks to the proprietors of that
newspaper for the permission thus generously
accorded for their present reproduction.
In carrying out the work of revision many passages
previously omitted have been restored to the text.
To render such readily apparent to the reader, they
have in every case been enclosed in [] brackets.
A new series of illustrations has been specially
prepared for this edition by Mr. George Darby of
Calcutta, and the Publishers venture to think he
has succeeded in a marked degree in embodying
in his sketches the spirit of the Author's subjects.
In conclusion it has been the aim of the Publishers
to render this new edition of a great work by a very
gifted writer as perfect as possible and worthy ofacceptance as a standard Anglo-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 PARTIBUSXI. 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
* * * * *
EXTRACTS FROM "SERIOUS REFLECTIONSAND 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
* * * * *
ELUCIDATIONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
THE TRAVELLING M.P.
THE A.D.C. IN WAITING
THE ARCHDEACON
THE BENGALI BABOOTHE 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