India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . of Wurtzlers, where we presentlyfound ourselves in comfortable rooms, bungalow-like, opening on to a verandah. The hotel hadformerly been a palace, and was rather a handsomebuilding in its way, with a round-arched arcadedfront, long and low, with a pleasant enclosure oftrees and flower garden. There was a little rift within the lute, how-ever, which rather marred the first moments of ourarrival at Lucknow, my wife having unfortunatelygot a little bit of grit in her eye from the enginewhile in the train. The
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . of Wurtzlers, where we presentlyfound ourselves in comfortable rooms, bungalow-like, opening on to a verandah. The hotel hadformerly been a palace, and was rather a handsomebuilding in its way, with a round-arched arcadedfront, long and low, with a pleasant enclosure oftrees and flower garden. There was a little rift within the lute, how-ever, which rather marred the first moments of ourarrival at Lucknow, my wife having unfortunatelygot a little bit of grit in her eye from the enginewhile in the train. There was nothing for it butto drive to the hospital the first thing after break-fast. Luckily we caught the chief surgeon () just as he was attending to some nativecases in waiting. He at once took us to the operating room,7 which sounded rather fearsome,and was indeed a severe place with a polished is5 186 INDIA IMPRESSIONS marble floor, a case of surgical instruments and anoperating table being the only furniture poor eye-patient had to extend herself on the. IN HOSPITAL, LUCKNOW. THE OPERATING TABLE (PATIENTHAD A BIT OF GRIT IN HER EYE AFTER A TRAIN JOURNEY) — SIXTEEN RUPEES WERE EXTRACTED ! table, while the Colonel very deftly found and quicklyremoved a tiny black speck which had caused allthe trouble—working up right under the upper lidof the eye. He put some cocaine into the eye firstof all, and afterwards applied a little lint and relief must have been worth anything—it mighthave been described as a lesser Relief of Lucknow ! LUCKNOW 187 The next example of human skill or sleight ofhand we witnessed was in the juggling, not thesurgical, profession. It was a native conjurer who,under the arcade of the hotel, showed us the famousmano^o tree trick. As additional attractions, or a
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