Footnote 24: The Great God.

Footnote 25: A reduction in the number of guns is the first punishment for bad administration.

Footnote 26: Pagul = mad.

Footnote 27: Blue-throated; the name of the kingfisher.

Footnote 28: The Ganges.

Footnote 29: Worship.

Footnote 30: Copyright, 1895, by Macmillan & Co.

Footnote 31: Equivalent to our Easter.

Footnote 32: Bad living.

Footnote 33: Greeting or peace to the King.

Footnote 34: Honorific title for a father.

Footnote 35: A common belief in India.

Footnote 36: The Universal God.

Footnote 37: The barber is always employed in regular betrothals.

Footnote 38: Judge.

Footnote 39: The Universal God.]

Footnote 40: The Monkey-god.

Footnote 41: Head-man of village.

Footnote 42: From chujj, a sweeper's basket. One of the many opprobrious names given to avert the envious, and therefore evil, eye.

Footnote 43: For the most part, sugar animals, such as are sold at English fairs.

Footnote 44: Echis carinata, the Indian viper. It lies coiled in a true-lover's knot, rustling its scales one against the other. It is the most vicious and irritable of all Indian snakes.

Footnote 45: A husband's name should never be mentioned by a wife, especially in matters referring to herself.

Footnote 46: Worldly-wealth.

Footnote 47: Take her hand.

Footnote 48: Explain.

Footnote 49: Watchman.

Footnote 50: Copyright, 1896, by Macmillan & Co.

Footnote 51: Aga, noble; Meean, prince.

Footnote 52: Copyright, 1895, by Macmillan & Co.

Footnote 53: Copyright, 1896, by Macmillan & Co.