brother-of-the-brush

Updated: May 15, 2025

Their faces seem refined and well shaped till they laugh or shout, when the lizard throat and regular monkey teeth show a little. From daybreak, after chota hazri, the brother-of-the-brush would paint till eleven, then have breakfast proper, a read and loaf possibly a little closing of the eyes to sleep would be more profitable and paint again in the afternoon and evening.

W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch - From Edinburgh to India & Burmah