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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Mother Gunga talks good talk. I told that to the padre-sahib who preached on the Mombassa, and he asked the Burra Malum to put me in irons for a great rudeness." "Surely they make these things to please their Gods," said the Bull again. "Not altogether," the Elephant rolled forth.
"The Osprey won't take long to run into Burra Wick," said Tom; "and we must make a jolly good breakfast here before returning to civilised life." "There will be time to inspect the Stack, I hope," Harry remarked. "We must have a full report of this isle that has a bad name, according to Gloy."
It lay in her mind in the midst of a suddenly stricken and tenderly saddened consciousness. It lay there passively; it did not rise and grapple with her, it was a thing that had happened in Burra Bazar. The pity of it assailed her. Tears came into her eyes, and an infinite grieved solicitude gathered about her heart.
"What do you mean by letting people disturb me in this way?" The man stared at me in amazement. "Has any one disturbed the sahib?" he asked. "This instant this moment. You must have seen him pass out of my tent." "Surely the Burra Sahib is mistaken," the man answered, respectfully but firmly. "I have been here for an hour, and no one has passed from the tent."
There is room, don't you think, for a really good book on the Mutiny? Last night the Drawing-Room was held by the Vicereine, a function that everyone, more or less, is expected to attend. Not being the wives or daughters of Members of Council or anything burra, we hadn't the private entree, and had to wait our turn in pens, like dumb driven cattle.
Colonel Starr began to say softly within himself, 'I am a brute. The fifth minute was up. 'Will you speak? asked the Colonel. 'Burra sahib, no, said Sunni. At that instant Lieutenant Pink galloped up to the door of the tent. 'They've come to their senses at last, sir. Six mounted men have just left the north gate, signalling for a parley.
In the course of the morning my Burra Sahib, who was married, and had left his wife all alone in their house, 3, London Street, was, of course, greatly perturbed and anxious as to her safety, and at about 11 o'clock he made up his mind to try and get back home again, and ordered out his buggy.
"Arra burra arra, arra, arra!" sung out the crowd. "Arra, arra, arra!" repeated our arrieros, goading the unfortunate animals with their sticks "Arra, sish, sish!" It is hopeless to imitate the sounds emitted by our drivers. Up we shot like pellets from popguns, through the narrow rock-strewn gorges which are called roads. Up, up, up the animals scrambled.
Ill-usage of him is a luxury like any other, paid for by those who enjoy it, not to be had otherwise. There is one other thing on which he sets his childish heart. He likes service with a master who is in some sort a burra saheb. He is by nature a hero worshipper and master is his natural hero. The saying, that no man is a hero to his own valet, has no application here.
Thus saying, he put a large bundle of Testaments into a satchel, and springing upon the crupper of his grey donkey, he cried "Arrhe burra," and hastened away. I sat down to my journal. Ere I had finished writing, I heard the voice of the burra in the courtyard, and going out, I found my host returned.
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