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"Are you comfortable, uncle? And are you not afraid of falling down?" "Why should I fall?" seriously answered the "uncle," expectorating a red fountain an unavoidable result of betel-chewing. "I do not breathe, mam-sahib!" "What do you mean? A man cannot do without breathing!" exclaimed I, a good deal astonished by this wonderful bit of information. "Oh yes, he can.
Sobbing and crying he kept on repeating that the Mam-Sahib had torn off his darling Peri's tail, that Peri was damaged for ever in everybody's estimation, that Peri's husband, the proud Airavati, lineal descendant of Indra's own favourite elephant, having witnessed her shame, would renounce his spouse, and that she had better die.... Yells and bitter tears were his only answer to all remonstrances of our companions.
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