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Updated: May 15, 2025
Only a few of them are astir, and the dew runs steadily from the roof of our carriage and makes a hole in the sandy track, and an early crow is round for anything that may be going. The cook comes past with a comforting glow from charcoal in a frying pan, so we know our chota hazri will be before us in no time, after which we intend to trolly back on the line to Seringapatam.
She was hollow-eyed and unrefreshed when a bare-footed native "boy" knocked at her door and left a tray with her chota hazri at it. She could not eat, but she drank the tea thirstily. Pleading fatigue she remained in her room all the morning and refused to go down to tiffin.
It's a nasty dangerous bit of road; but our own men are on ahead, so we're safe enough. We shall be climbing the hill directly; and I'll be uncommonly glad of my chota hazri." "You deserve it, you poor fellow! But it sounds an anachronism! I can't believe that anything so commonplace as a bungalow, with servants and tea and toast, exists within a hundred miles of this primeval nakedness."
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.
With that she sprang out of bed, and slipping on a dull blue dressing-gown, hurried into the dining-room, where she and Michael always met for chota hazri. Here she found him, in Japanese smoking suit and slippers, smiling contentedly over an item of his early post. "What's pleasing you, mon cher?" she asked absently, depositing a light kiss on his hair.
Look, here comes Chamu with the chota hazri." Clad in an enormous turban and clean white linen from head to foot, a stout Hindu appeared, superintending a tall meek underling who carried the customary "little breakfast" of the country fruit, biscuits and the inevitable tea that haunts all British byways.
I saw the fellow squirm! Bad as they were at night our fellow-travellers are worse in the daytime. They won't get up until ten o'clock, and we have to stay outside until they do, as there is nowhere to sit down. Ramaswamy brings us chota hazri, consisting of tea and toast and plantains, and we eat it outside. The Englishman in the next compartment looks out presently and invites us in.
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