The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-20

verses came to be printed in the paper l
was in very good company, lot tntlc
! always an undercurreDt OF song, llt'le o i
ter for the most part, running thro1Sh me
Indian paper. The bulk OF 1t is m,ich oI'ter
than mine. being more graceful, ana -
done by those less than Sir Alfred Iy:ll,
to whom / would apologize Tor meht 10 l
his pame in tbs m ..r w. "Fore
SIGHT ~ and others whose names come up
with the stars out of the Indian ocean
going eastward. , o,,a he
,nVnd ~ song and man on the Bombay
side ,yould answer him End man in 8engat
would echo back, til at last we Tna Al" DIV
breat. when it is too dark to see your fe low
And occasionally, some unhappy ,iet M bis
voice among the teachests, and the queer.
smelling yellow papers OF the fhr east ad
US the result The nf te i"n snn o Of Inst
tli' sana snhiecfs that we did-of heat, lone
iiness love, lack of promotion, poverty, sport
ana ana @ Sirthteenth century, ifickey's Bengal
t ca very wicked little sheet in chi
tors, ensigns and writers Of the East India
Company They too wrote ten OF ,yo 5e sf S,l,e
e ennG t to bny bullocis heart for dinner
| cook it with their own hands oefauaC lIics
| could not afford a servant, anu nl a,s,'rt, =
, Lives were not worth two m9nsoons P"t
| chase and perhaps the knowledge OF nus 1"
| IN a very short time you're released from all
| cares o,,, ,
If the IPpadri's asleep Mr. Oldham feaos pray
| The note OF physical discomfort that runs
| through so much Anglo Indian poetry had
| been Struck then. You will find it most fully
| snS@esttd in ''Jhe Long Indian Day" com.
! par3tivcy modern affair, but thelt - set OF
verses called scmGy fr Witch Gives a
, lively IDEA of what our seniors in the S,ryice
! had to put up with. one OF the most inter
| nstinp Donrus 7 ever found was written IN
| Manrnt. three or four days before the mutiny
| broke out there. The author complained that
could not gef his c oTaT b Ma worres
/ My verses had the good fortune 30 IaSc
| little longer than some others when were
| more true to facts and certainly better WORK,
| manShip. Men in the army and the civil
service and the railway wrote to me SAYING
! that the rhymes might be made into bo?k.
| Some Of them had been sung to the banjos
| round the camp fires and some had run as
! far down coast rs Rangoon and Moulmel4
| Of the question hut I knew that RuEn-ldn
| and the office plant We're Ct my. disposal at 2
4 nrice if | did not use office time. Also. l
I had handled in the previous year couple os
| SINAI! books, in which ! vas part owner ola
| had lost nothing. So there was built 4 sort
! TO initiate a d. o. government envelope, print
ed on one side only, bound in brown paper;
and secured with red tape. 1t was addressed
! to all heads of departments and all govern
| uient officials. and among a pie OF papers
| would have deceived q clerk OF twenty years
| hundreds, and as there was no necessity Tor
! advertising the public being to my hapl- /
| took reply post cards. printed the news or
| the birth OF the book on one side, the blank
order form on the other, and posted them no
! and down the empire from Alden TO singapore
| and from Quetta 10 Colombo. There was no
| trade discount, no reckoning tWelNeS as inlf-
teens. no commission, and credit OF any
| kind whatever. The money came back in
poor but honest rupees. and was tranSterrfq
| from the publisher the ieft-hand pocket, di-
| rcct to the author, the right-hard pocket.
| Every copy sold in Il few weeks. and the ri ITO
OF expenses TO profits, rs | remember 1t, mas
! since prevented my injuring my health by sym
| pathizing with publishers who talk of their
| risks and expense. The doWr-country pa
! ptrs complained of the form of the thing:
The wire binding cut the pages and the RED
! tape tore the covers. This was not inten-
| ti0nal. but heaven HELMS those who help
! themselves. Consequently there arose de-
mand for a new edition, and this time l ex-
| changed the pleasure Of taking in money over
the counter for that Of seeing real pub
Iisher's imprint on the title page. Mere
verses We're taken out and put in. and some
| on the map. and each edition grew q little
fatter. and. ut last the book came 10 london
with a silt TOP and a stiff back
But | loved it best when il was a little
brown baby with mink string round its stom-
ach, a child's child, ignorant that it was
afflicted with all the most modern ailments,
and before people had learned beyond doubt
how its author lay awake Of nights IN India
plotting and schemn& 10 write something
that should take with tie English public