Behind the Bungalow

[Picture: A dog boy] IN Bombay it is not enough to fit yourself with a Boy: your dog requires a Boy too. I have always felt an interest in the smart little race of Bombay dog-bo...

[Picture: The Bheestee] THE _malee_ has an ally called the _Bheestee_. If you ask, Who is the _Bheestee_? I will tell you. _Behisht_ in the Persian tongue means Paradise, and a...

THESE papers appeared in the _Times of India_, and were written, of course, for the Bombay Presidency; but the Indian _Nowker_ exhibits very much the same traits wherever he is...

[Picture: The Mussaul] THE _Mussaul’s_ name is Mukkun, which means butter, and of this commodity I believe he absorbs as much as he can honestly or dishonestly come by. How else...

I have already treated of the Boy, and to devote another chapter to the Butler may seem like making a distinction where there is no difference; but there is in reality a radical...

I WAS roaming among the flower-beds and bowers of a “Peri’s Paradise,” known in Bombay as The Ladies Gymkhana, when I was startled by a voice like the sound of a passionate cart...

[Picture: Hurree] A WARM altercation is going on in the verandah. A little human animal, with a very large red turban on his little head, stuck full of pins and threaded needles...

Gopal, the _Gowlee_, haunts me in my dreams, complaining that he has been left out in the cold. I had classed him with the _borah_ and the baker, as outsiders with whom I had me...

I will sketch my ideal of a model _Chupprassee_. He is a follower of the Prophet, for your Gentoo has too many superstitions and scruples to be generally useful. He parts his sh...