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253 Story of an Emigtiant.
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with boots and stockings on? " Does not this show that
the Kali Ugla has stamped its character on the minds of the
people? Ladies and gentlemen, you can easily imagine what
effect questions like this would have on your minds if you
had been in my place!
Once it happened that I was obliged to stay in school for
some time, and go twice a day for my meals to the house of
a relative. Passers-by, whenever they saw me going,
gathered round me. Some of them made fun and were convulsed
with laughter. Others, sitting respectably on their
verandas, made ridiculous remarks, and did not feel ashamed to
throw pebbles at me. The shop-keepers and venders spit at
the sight of me, and made gestures too indecent to describe.
I leave it to you to imagine what was m v condition at such
time, and how I could gladly have burst through the crowd
to make my home nearer.
Yet the boldness of my Bengali brethren cannot be exceded,
and is still more serious to contemplate than the instances
I have given from Bombay’. Surely it deserves pity. If I
go to take a walk on the strand, Englishmen are not so bold
as to look at me. Even the soldiers are never troublesome,
but the Baboo boys* have their levity by making fun of
everything. " Who are you ? " " What caste do you belong to ? "
" Whence do you come ? " " Where do y^ou go ? "—are in my
opiuion, questions that should not be asked by strangers.
There are some educated native Christians herein Serampoor
who are suspicious; they are still wondering whether I am
married or a widow; a woman of bad character or
excommunicated. Dear audience, docs it become my native and
Christian brethren to be so uncharitable? Certainly not.
I place these unpleasant things before yrou that those whom
they concern mo >t may rectify them, and that those who
•Educated Hindoo of tlie middle class.
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