"أيام ثيم ولَّت" [و‎‎٣] (٢٤٨/٥)

THIM DAYS IS GONE
Most people I suspect - like myself - abominate books which start
off with a Preface, Introduction, Prologue or Foreword, and m
prefer to
reluctance
piunge
that I
straight into
feel I have to
so it is with
explan ation .
of snobbery and
this otherwise
the narrative :
with this
The British - Indian Raj was a fertile hot-bed
Domposity. and I have endeavoured to enliven
hum-drum story with what I consider to be occasional gems.
These are printed in Italics.
The late r.hristabe l. Lady Ampthill of blessed memory answered
fha Hnnr-hpll of 'her Castle of uungorra in tonne mara to tind ^he
^n onherdporstep. He said ''Where do you wan the^J
co al
mis s u sT*
ladyship!”
She drew herself up~
H i s answer was
an d replied "Kindly address me as
"Thim days is gone missus, where
your
do you
want the coal?"