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"Thus armed with only a heavy elephant rifle, the property of the foreign missionary society, and clad only in grace, Flora Martin began her lonely vigil on the roof of the mission-house, which is used both as a dwelling and Sunday-school by those who are carrying light to the heathen in Ballerraderad, which, we must remember, is one of the most populous provinces in all Injy.
Well, from there Brother Matthias went up into the country called I can't just mind the exact name oh, here it is B-a-l-l-e-r-r-a-d Ballerrad e-r-a-d Ballerraderad." Luther paused and sighed. "Them names them names!" he exclaimed. "If there is one thing that convinces me that the story of the Tower of Babel is true, it is the names of the towns in Injy."
He was smiling, for Weston was telling him that he had stood at the Thomas gate for a half hour the very evening before, listening to the strains of a violin. He hoped to hear that melody again, when Mr. Warden had finished the story of the brave missionary of Ballerraderad. The Dunker preacher was beaming.
It seemed to me that perhaps from the viewpoint of the East Indian, the same thing might be said of our "villes" and "burgs," and I was about to raise my voice in behalf of the maligned heathen, when my host resumed his discourse. "When you come in, I was readin' about a poor missionary woman in Baller Baller Ballerraderad whose Sunday-school had been largely eat up by taggers.
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