cotton-cleaner

Updated: May 17, 2025

So the morning passes into mid-day, amid a hundred sounds symbolical of the various phases of life in the Western capital, the shout of the driver, the twang of the cotton-cleaner, the warning call of the anxious mother, the rattle of the showman's drum, the yell of the devotee, the curse of the cartman, the clang of the coppersmith, the chaffering of buyer and seller and the wail of the mourner.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay