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Title: India and the Indians
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Elwin, Edward Fenton
Subjects: India -- Social life and customs India
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ce a high-caste visitor inthe verandah, when he was alone, has asked mefor a drink of water; and there is no breach ofcaste so heinous as to take water from the handof a Christian. Now and then a Hindu lad willdisplay such an audacious courage in religiousmatters that it partakes rather of the nature of aboyish freak. Several big Brahmin lads, most ofthem being about sixteen or seventeen years old,had been visiting the Mission - house ratherfrequently and showed a good deal of interest inChristianity. One of them, when sitting in theverandah, suddenly said to one of the Fathers:Could I have a drink of water? The Fatherreplied that he would fetch him the water if hewished. The lad said : * Bring it, please ; andwhen the glass of water was brought, he drunk itin the presence of his companions, and thusdeliberately and publicly breaking his caste.Unless he had been prepared to follow his actionup in some definite way, it had no particular use;but it was not for us to suggest scruples. It
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NiRARI BhOSI.E. To fice p. lOS. A MISCHIEVOUS VILLAGE BOY 169 need scarcely be added that the visits from thatparticular group of lads ceased, and it was longafterwards tliat, meeting the perpetrator of thisrash act in the road, I asked him what penaltieshe had had to undergo for what he had done.He denied that any results followed, but thecessation of his visits gave the lie to thisassertion. One of the village boys, who is endowed witha strong spirit of mischief, implored me to cut offhis pigtail in order that he might have the funof seeing his mothers horror when he returnedwithout it. But as he had no present intentionof becoming a Christian, and it would have madea row to no purpose, I refused to be an accompliceto his mischief. CHAPTER XXV WILD BEASTS IN INDIA Tigers not often seen. Unlooked-for visits. Appearance of atiger. The dead panther. Government rewards. Annualreturn of people killed. The tigers den. Jackals; theircry. Wolves. So-called wolf-boys. The Asiatic lion. When

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