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IS 174.2
Story of an Emigrant.
palanquin-bearers are passing the square. The palanquin is
a long covered box attached to a long pole and carried bv
four men, two at each end of the pole, which rests on their
shoulders. Inside the palanquin is perhaps a Hindoo
merchant going to a bazaar, or a couple of students going to
the university, or maybe the wife of some well-to-do native
merchant 011 the way to the home of her parents.
The trees in the park are all full of flowers, like the tulip
indigo cart.
tree and the chestnut in bloom. Innumerable birds of gay
colors flutter among the branches of the trees, and 011 the
roofs ot the highest houses we discover a couple of the
so-called adjutant birds, a specics of stork, which stand
like sentinels on guard watch nj the thousands of ravens
that hover over the city ready to dive for any garbage that
may be thrown out into the street or alley. Formerly,
these were the only scavengers in the citics of India. A
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