MAD ENGLISHMEN.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

MAD ENGLISHMEN.

I active race, the old servant trudged t along perspiring and disgusted in the i track of his acrobatic master.— -From Chasing a Fortune, by Phil Robinson.

i In common with most natives, Bam Lai thought all Englishmen a trifle mad. Had he not often seen them rushing about cricket-fields to pick up balls when there were any number of servants sitting about who might have been told to do it for them 1 J3id they not jump up from dinner aqd get on to horses and ride away like mad, if they heai d there was something or other to shoot, and leave their dinners to get cold, and perhaps not come back all night? lustead of eating their meals at home, did they not have their food carried up to the tops of mountains and bgttoms of valleys, and eat "idiots' dinuers" there, as the natives call picnics 1 Were they not in the habit of dressing up in ridiculous clothes and dancing at " idiots' dances" — for such' the Hindoos call a fancy-dress ball. Would any sane persons go riding after pigs with spears, breaking their collarbones, and getting horses killed, when they might easily shoot the pige if they liked 1 Take his present master at the present moment. Here was he, in an excellent position under Government, and tiffin waiting for him, flying like a maniac along the river bank. Thus moralising on the unaccountable eccentricities of our