Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey (books to get back into reading TXT) 📗
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Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A. viii
"Let out! Let out!!" 5
"A golden-headed umbrella, fresh as a rose." 15
"Miss Jessimina Mankletow." 25
"I instantaneously endured the total upset!" 37
"With a large, stout constable." 47
"Was accosted by a polite, agreeable stranger." 51
"A weedy, tall male gentleman." 61
"A beaming simper of indescribable suavity." 81
"I became once more the silent tomb." 91
"In garbage of unparagoned shabbiness." 99
"The spectators saluted me with shouts of joy as the returned Shahzadar." 107
"Some haughty masculine might insult her under my very nose." 115
"It was here," I said, reverently, "that the swan of Avon was hatched!" 129
"Ascended his bicycle with a waggish winkle in his eye." 141
"Pitch it strong, my respectable Sir!" 151
"Huzza! Tol-de-rol-loll!" 157
"A royal command from the Queen-Empress." 169
"Would be greatly improved by the simple addition of some knee-caps." 179
"I am addressed by an underbred street-urchin as a 'Blooming Blacky!'" 187
"Of incredible bashfulness and bucolical appearance." 191
"I presented my trophy and treasure-trove to the fairylike Miss Wee-Wee." 203
"Whether he had wha-haed wi' hon'ble Wallace?" 209
Baboo Chuckerbutty Ram. 219
"Fresh as a daisy, and fine as a carrot fresh scraped." 227
Mr Justice Honeygall. 237
Witherington, Q.C. 247
"Jabberjee's face gradually lengthens." 261
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To the Hon'ble —— Punch.
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Sir, I am an able B.A. of a respectable Indian University, now in this country for purposes of being crammed through Inns of Court and Law Exam., and rendering myself a completely fledged Pleader or Barrister in the Native Bar of the High Court.
Since my sojourn here, I have accomplished the laborious perusal of your transcendent and tip-top periodical, and, hoity toity! I am like a duck in thunder with admiring wonderment at the drollishness and jocosity with which your paper is ready to burst in its pictorial department. But, alack! when I turn my critical attention to the literary contents, I am met with a lamentable deficiency and no great shakes, for I note there the fly in the ointment and hiatus valde deflendus—to wit the utter absenteeism of a correct and classical style in English composition.
To the highly educated native gentleman who searches your printed articles, hoping fondly to find himself in a well of English pure and undefiled, it proves merely to fish in the air. Conceive, Sir, the disgustful result to one saturated to the skin of his teeth in best English masterpieces of immaculate and moderately good prose extracts and dramatic passages, published with notes for the use of the native student, at weltering in a hotchpot and hurley-burley of arbitrarily distorted and very vulgarised cockneydoms and purely London provincialities, which must be of necessity to him as casting pearls before a swine!
And I have the honour to inform you of a number of cultivated lively young native B.A.'s, both here and in my country, who are quite capable to appreciate really fine writing
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