Curry & Rice on Forty Plates or The Ingredients of Social Life at “Our” Station in India

Far from the busy haunts of a civilized world and the traffickings of men and plunged in the wild retirement of a luxuriant jungle smiles Kabob " the loveliest village of the plain " basking beneath the rays of the orient sun. [...] Chutney's wearied hour; but I suspect the squirrels and the Persian cats the cockatoos and the canaries the minahs and mogooses and the pigeons and the poodles appropriate the largest share of her devotion. [...] Observe the purity of the ecclesiastical style of architecture selected obviously the early Indian or Capenteresque one of the periods of the "Disappointed Gothic." But there goes Ginger ; that is his bungalow into which you see he has just driven and all that multitude of " the sick the maimed the lame the halt and the blind " that are thronging in at his gate are the afflicted ones of [...] Thus you see with the sick and afflicted thronging at his gate and the dead awaiting interment " Our Padre " amid the flash of light and cheerful pleasures has many a sterner duty to perform from which he never flinches ; and if he participates in the sports and amusements of the gay and the healthy he can and does share in the sorrows of the bereaved sympathize with the afflicted and cheer [...] The seclusion of a China and a Japan has nought to compare with the rigid interdiction of all intercourse from without that signalizes the government of the McGhee rule in respect to the non-admission of the foreigner ; for hermetically sealed are the garden gates and the glad voice of welcome rings not within its walls.