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IS 181.2 Story of an Emigrant.
seats for such as wish to sit clown and rest; but it is now
time for exercise, and they walk in rows often or more until
the band winds up its program for the evening bv
playing "God save the Oueen." In the midst of a general
parsee family.
hurry and confusion we hunt up our carriage which was to
stop at a certain spot, and return to the crossroad from
which the roads of Maidan as well as the streets in the city
may be seen glimmering in the gaslight as far as the eye can
reach. When we reach home it is just time to dress for
dinner, which generally begins at eight o’clock, lasting two or
three hours. As to fashionable life, social pleasure, display
of dress and finery, etc., Calcutta excels every other place in
the world.
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