My particular Intermediate happened to be empty till I reached Nasirabad, when the big black-browed gentleman in shirt-sleeves entered, and, following the of Intermediates, pasd the time of day. He was a wanderer and a vagabond like mylf, but with an educated taste for whisky. He told tales of things he had en and done, of out-of-the-way ers of the Empire into which he had peed, and of adventures in which he risked his life for a few days'' food.
"If India was filled with men like you and me, not knowing more than the crows where they''d get their day''s rations, it isn''t venty millions of revenue the land would be paying—it''s ven hundred millions," said he; and as I looked at his mouth and I was dispod to agree with him.
We talked politics,—the politibsp;of Loaferdom that es things from the under side where the lath and plaster is not smoothed off,—and we talked postal arras bebsp;my friend wanted to nd a telegram babsp;from the station to Ajmir, the turning-off plabsp;from the Bombay to the Mhow line as you travel westward. My friend had no money beyond eight annas whibsp;he wanted for dinner, and I had no money at all, owing to the hitbsp;in the Budget before mentioned. Further, I was going into a wilderness where, though I should resume touch with the Treasury, there were no telegraph offices. I was, therefore, uo help him in any way.
My particular Intermediate happened to be empty till I reached Nasirabad, when the big black-browed gentleman in shirt-sleeves entered, and, following the of Intermediates, pasd the time of day. He was a wanderer and a vagabond like mylf, but with an educated taste for whisky. He told tales of things he had en and done, of out-of-the-way ers of the Empire into which he had peed, and of adventures in which he risked his life for a few days'' food.
"If India was filled with men like you and me, not knowing more than the crows where they''d get their day''s rations, it isn''t venty millions of revenue the land would be paying—it''s ven hundred millions," said he; and as I looked at his mouth and I was dispod to agree with him.
We talked politics,—the politibsp;of Loaferdom that es things from the under side where the lath and plaster is not smoothed off,—and we talked postal arras bebsp;my friend wanted to nd a telegram babsp;from the station to Ajmir, the turning-off plabsp;from the Bombay to the Mhow line as you travel westward. My friend had no money beyond eight annas whibsp;he wanted for dinner, and I had no money at all, owing to the hitbsp;in the Budget before mentioned. Further, I was going into a wilderness where, though I should resume touch with the Treasury, there were no telegraph offices. I was, therefore, uo help him in any way.