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We have only to be careful that kutcha lines are not mistaken for pucka ones that they are not allowed to set up a rival system as against the main lines, or to occupy ground which should be appropriated by the latter. As the railway from Benares to Allahabad was not yet complete, Lord Elgin and his suite performed this part of the journey by carriage dâk.
Why should we go on making asses of ourselves over a girl who hasn't a civil word for either of us?" "What?" cried Charteris, pausing on the edge of the verandah. "She's given you a pucka jawab too?" "Last night," said Gerrard laconically. Charteris came a step nearer. "Will you kindly tell me," he said, addressing creation generally, "exactly what that girl wants?
Some two stages from Delhi, after changing horses and proceeding on the journey along the pucka road, I fell into a doze, and at last into a sound sleep. From this I was rudely awakened by shouts of "Chor! chor!" Starting up, I seized the pistols, and opening the doors of the ghari, saw, as I fancied, some forms disappearing in the darkness at the side of the road.
An old Brahmin of Secundra Rao narrated that some years before 1810 the harvest was so plentiful that on the occasion he built a house which was on a very high plinth: he filled the plinth instead of with mud with an inferior course of small grain called 'kodun, selling at that time uncommonly cheap, much lower than the cost of mud would be; when the famine came he dug up the coarse grain, which was found good, and sold it, and with the money he made his house a pucka one, besides gaining a large sum in coin."
In short, in America where they cannot get a pucka railway, they take a kutcha one instead. This, I think, is what we must do in India. There are many districts where railways costing 3,000l. or 4,000l. a mile might be introduced with advantage, although they would not justify an expenditure of from 10,000l. to 15,000l. a mile.
Guthrie Brimston was known as "The Brimston Woman." Her conversation bristled with vain repetitions. She was always "a worm" when asked after her health, and everything that pleased her was "pucka."
"It is the house usually occupied by Europeans here. They are one story high, with a broad veranda, like the one we have just visited. Almost always they have a pyramidal roof, generally thatched, but rarely slated or tiled. When the body is of brick or stone, they call them pucka houses. Doubtless you wished to know the origin of the word, Mrs. Belgrave." "That was just what I wished to know."
"Why, last time I was in port, a nurse died at the hospital." "Oh, only a nurse " Lady Meadowcroft began, and then coloured up deeply, with a side glance at Hilda. "And lots besides nurses," the Captain continued, positively delighted at the terror he was inspiring. "Pucka Englishmen and Englishwomen. Bad business this plague, Dr. Cumberledge! Catches particularly those who are most afraid of it."
You know I am a captain, now that is to say, that I have got my rank by death vacancies, though until the Gazette comes out from England, I can hardly be said to be a pucka captain; and, what is more, the general himself assured me that, after being mentioned in despatches two or three times, and at his strong commendation of my services, I was sure of the brevet rank of major."
If there are independent critics in this world, it is British barristers. Briefly, it is a delicious 'Pisgah sight of Palestine. If, in Indian phrase, he could only become 'pucka' instead of 'kucha' a permanent instead of temporary judge he would prefer it to anything in the world.
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