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The storm commenced earlier than that of 1864, late in the afternoon, and just about dusk appearances were so threatening that I went downstairs, with the intention of going outside to ascertain, if possible, whether it was likely to develop into a pucca cyclone or not.
Other houses in the village are composed of unburnt bricks cemented with mud, or maybe composed of mud walls and thatched roof; these, being a compound sort of erection, are called cutcha pucca. In the cutcha houses live the poorer castes, the Chumars or workers in leathers, the Moosahms, Doosadhs, or Gwallahs.
I leant over the bowl like a minor clumsy Providence and watched the V.C. sort of action for quite a long time, and suppressed cheers, but Burmah called, and the Boy waited, so I had to leave them to Pucca Providence for a little. Then they formed a new colony under my water colour, "The Landing of Lord Minto at the Appolo Bundar."
He said Roy's mother was rather a swell native woman a pucca native; and Roy went for him like a wild thing, because he called her an ayah " Again Rose smiled in spite of herself. "He would!" "Would he, indeed! That's all you think of though you know I've got a weak heart. And I nearly fainted if that's any interest to you! The Bradley boy doesn't know about us.
Under my window, in the street called Cossitollah, flows all the motliness of a Calcutta thoroughfare in two counter-setting currents; one Chowriagee-ward, in the direction of Nabob magnificence and grace; the other toward the Cooly squalor and deformity of the Radda Bazaar; and as, in the glare of the early forenoon sun, the shadows of the hither or thither passing throngs fall straight across the way, from the Parsee's godown, over against me, to the gate of the pucca house wherein my look-out is, I watch with interest the frequent eddies occasioned by the clear-steerings of caste, Brahmin, Warrior, and Merchant keeping severely to the Parsee side, so that the foul shadow of Soodra or Pariah may not pollute their sacred persons.
Thus a man who is true, upright, respected, a man to be depended on, is called a pucca man. It is a word in constant use among Anglo-Indians. A pucca road is one which is bridged and metalled. If you make an engagement with a friend, and he wants to impress you with its importance, he will ask you, Now is that pucca? and so on.
Many of these tanks, called Kajhana, are capable of containing 40,000 cubic feet of water or more. Below, and in a line with this reservoir, are the steeping vats, each capable of containing about 2000 cubic feet of water when full. Of course the vats vary in size, but what is called a pucca vat is of the above capacity.
It means top hat, frock coat and an extra high collar for the afternoon, and in the evening a hard, hot, stiff shirt and black hot clothes, and a crush and the thermometer at pucca hot-weather temperature, and damp at that, but who cares, if we actually see Royalty twice in one day! I am determined not to go out to-day, not on any account.
"The old man swears he will turn out Ratan Singh whoever he may have been and give the poor chaps a pucca funeral in the shrine itself," said one youth. "I was not aware that we fought with the dead," said Gerrard, rather disgusted. "Seems rayther a spicy idea to me," drawled another. "They do our fellows out of a grave, so we prig one of theirs for 'em."
They clean their teeth with the end of a stick, which they chew at one extremity, till they loosen the fibres, and with this improvised toothbrush and some wood ashes for paste, they make them look as white and clean as ivory. There is generally a large masonry well in the middle of the village, with a broad smooth pucca platform all round it.
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