The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . severestrain was over. Her eyes brightening and herform at once straightening to its utmost impressi-bility, as she fondly hoped, the quick reply was : Tell Sahib if he will give me another half rupee —eighteen cents in our money— I will carry itdown and back again without stopping. Corrugated iron is largely used by Europeans forroofing, and comes to India in sheets, the weight ofwhich is indicated upon each. Once, when puffingup a mountain roadway in company with my
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . severestrain was over. Her eyes brightening and herform at once straightening to its utmost impressi-bility, as she fondly hoped, the quick reply was : Tell Sahib if he will give me another half rupee —eighteen cents in our money— I will carry itdown and back again without stopping. Corrugated iron is largely used by Europeans forroofing, and comes to India in sheets, the weight ofwhich is indicated upon each. Once, when puffingup a mountain roadway in company with my hostwho spoke Hindustani, and who was taking me tohis club, we were passed by a woman who no soonerwas in advance, than feet and ankles were all Icould see of her. Otherwise she was wholly hid-den by the huge sheets of stone-color-painted ironupon her back. Struck with amazement that awoman could walk away from us up so sharp anincline, with such a mass of metal weighing herdown, I asked my friend to stop her, which he proved her load to be one of threehundred and eighty pounds. It was held in place.
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