rite tag Estwol bp tag ii §ptetAwift...j Sin,—As an Anglo-Indian
On leave, I take leave to warn you that many of the so-called specimens of ,"Baboo English" one comes across are "faked " ; are, in fact, imitations of tlit natural product by waggish Britons. As a case in point, I wish to point out that a considerable portion of the gbotatien in the paragraph in your last issue headed "A. Nice turn for Metaphor" is a word-for-word repetition of pasiages in a gramophone record by Mr. W. S. Burke, a Calcutta editor and a very clever Baboo impersonator on the theatrical stage. The passages referred to are those mentioning "her valuable leather, the leather of the nose. Until the witness explains what became of my client's nose leather, he cannot be believed,"—an almost verbatim quotation, as you may easily prove by an application to the Gramophone Company of London, who sell the record.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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