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Updated: May 15, 2025
Four fluffy little Angora balls they were Chin, Chilla, Buffie, and Orange Pekoe, names that explain their color. And Jane, wet nurse and waiting-maid, had to keep as busy as the old woman that lived in a shoe. Jane it was who must look after the infants when Lady Betty wished to leave the house.
Youths, preceded by drummers and clarionet-players, wander through the streets laying all the shop-keepers under contribution for subscriptions; the well-to-do householder sets to building a 'sabil' or charity-fountain in one corner of his verandah or on a site somewhat removed from the fairway of traffic; while a continuous stream of people afflicted by the evil-eye flows into the courtyard of the Bara Imam Chilla near the Nal Bazaar to receive absolution from the peacock-feather brush and sword there preserved.
The image of the Divine power in that country of Pagans. Vide note 3, page 30, respecting the chilla, or "period of forty." That is to say, she had never seen a Muhammadan at his prayers. Lat and Manat were the two great idols of Hindu worship in former times. In the languages of southern India, Turk is the general appellation for a Musalman.
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