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Excerpt from The Ayah and Lady: An Indian Story The Ayah raised her voice, and bid the poor woman begone, or she would call one of the servants to beat her out of the compound. So the poor woman was frightened, and got off as quick as she could; and the Ayah went on eating till she was quite satisfied. She eat all the curry, but she had two handfuls of rice left, which she could not eat; there fore, as she wanted to clean her dishes, she threw these two handfuls of r1ce upon the ground for the crows. She then drank some water, and when she had scoured her brass dishes, and washed her hands, and face, and mouth, she lay down and slept until it was time to dress her Lady. And now I will tell you what her Lady said to her when she came in; for she had seen every thing that had passed, and had sent a servant after the poor woman with some rice, and a piece of coarse cloth for a sheet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.