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Show Wheu tho Great Sahib Comes, Till you aro i:i tho east you cannot realize tho necessity of a "forerunner" to clear tho way for a great man. Tliero ia no pavement or sido path far foot people peo-ple to walk on, and they scatter all over Uio road, thronging it tliickly, so that It would bo impossible to move quickly unless tho way wero cleared. Your syces, therefore, or a mounted Sepoy orderly, speed ahead in front of your carriage snouting without ceasing: "O wayfarer! O merchant! escape from tho road! O seller of cloth, escape! Mako j tho road clear, O peoplo! fho great sahib is coming! Mako liia way clear I' thus clearing u passage through tho crowd, which closes again the moment you havo passed. Children arc often lifted bodily out of tho way, whilo absent minded persons, who havo their thoughts in tho clouds and their heads in a blanket are apt to . find themselveaof a sudden sitting by the roadside and wondering bow they came there. Comliill Magazine, |