The Timely Retreat Or a Year in Bengal Before the Mutinies volume 1
The Timely Retreat Or a Year in Bengal Before the Mutinies volume 1
Madeline Anne Wallace Dunlop
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We preferred them, and when the time ap- proached for getting into the little bed, one Ayah, seizing a duster, begins violently agitating the air on one side. This is done to alarm any knowing mosquitoes who have stationed themselves on the edge of the curtain ready to hop inside directly it is raised, while the other woman carefully un- A YEAR IN BENGAL. 151 does a little scrap of it, under which you insert your head, and then slip dexterously in. Sometimes no care can exclude your bloodthirst...y tormentors, and then I pity you ; but, generally speaking, science defeats them entirely, and you defy them. Unless your servants are careful, however, the curtains are no protection against animals, for Nora found, one morning, a lizard inside hers, and read the Ayahs a serious lecture in English on the subject, which impressed them con- siderably. The last words to the Ayahs were always an injunction to call us at four o'clock, and the name of the pony that was to be in readiness for each. The punkah then begins to move violently, and you are left to the miseries of a long hot night.
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