Random Recollections - Couverture rigide

Ganthony, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1354339746 ISBN 13 : 9781354339749

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Ube Butbor s Butbor. BEFORE beginning to use that awful ninth letter of the alphabet, let me say a few words about my father, who is just eighty, and can do his years any day on a bicycle, or scull a party of ladies up the river and think nothing of it, which is not so bad, seeing that he spent a great part of his life as a professional man in I ndia. It was to him that India owed the introduction of artificial teeth. Prior to his arrival, the toothless people of that empire had to masticate their food with teeth taken from dead bodies snatched from the jaws of death, so to speak. The natives brought them to his predecessor in glass bottles, and also to him, till he effected a change, and gave his patrons manufactured teeth instead of the natural, but secondhand, or second-jaw, article. I have heard my father tell a good story of an Indian prince, who, having lost his teeth, came to him and had a new set, selecting the second-hand teeth as being the most natural. He had just begun to renew the almost forgotten delights of mastication when his smiles so brought the new grinders into notice that the Hindoo clergy heard of it. There was a great scandal, and the poor prince had no peace till a religious ceremony was inaugurated, in which he had to pray forgiveness of his Creator and deliver up the teeth which, having been taken from a dead body, were unclean. The teeth were publicly burnt, when the toothless sovereign was allowed to go home to the banquet awaiting him at his palace a banquet which awaited him in vain, as all the dusky gentleman could do was to mumble out an order for a basin of well-boiled rice and munch that.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1354339746
• ISBN 13: 9781354339749
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
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