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The Stranger in India I 182: There are, of them, various shades, proportioned to their nearer approach to a purely white extraction; and to distinguish the gradual approximation, a whimsical nomenclature has been adopted. The offspring of a white father and coloured mother is said to be eight annas in the rupee. If this offspring has children by a white father, these are said to be twelve annas in the rupee! Stranger in India I 148: I have heard of four burra bebees, who, in the olden times, daily took tiffin at each other’s houses, and drank a dozen of Hodgson’s pale ale before they retired from the table to their couches. Stranger in India I 122: I once heard an old Qui Hye declare, ‘that it was true he had destroyed his liver in Calcutta, but then he had eaten Tupsy-mutchees!’. Stranger in India I 162: Every one of these superlative pedlars declares he is ‘mem’s own box-wallah,’ and each protests that he ‘money not want – mem say her own price’.