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did interior outside the Li- 

 brary of Congress, but is 

 also a great help to writers. 

 The Persian poet once said 

 of this room : 



"If Paradise can be on 

 the face of the earth, it is 

 this ; oh ! it is this ; oh ! it is 

 this.'' Which is ample in- 

 dication that early poets, 

 like the author of Lalla 

 Rookh, were paid by the 

 word, and few indeed arc 

 the writers since who have 

 overlooked this redundant 

 money-maker. 



life; in a bullock-cart 

 camp 



One who goes outside 

 the present city of Delhi to 

 the site of some former or 

 future capital is almost 

 sure to come upon a bul- 

 lock-cart camp. On primi- 

 tive ovens the women bake 

 bread while the men sit 

 around and smoke or lie 

 corpse-like under quilted 

 blankets. Children p 1 a y 

 around the high wheels, 

 and under the heavy body 

 of the cart a baby may be 

 seen sleeping in a hammock. 



The costumes seem to be 

 chosen to contrast with the 

 arid earth. Sunbursts of 

 red and orange bear blind- 

 ing gleams where tiny mir- 

 rors have been worked into 

 the pattern, and the dim- 

 inutive bodice is decorated 

 with bright green and blue. 



Big feet and a silhouette 

 suit don't go well together ; 

 but even the capable feet of 

 an Indian peasant woman 

 borrow grace from a skirt 

 so full that when laid out 

 on a hillside to dry it looks 

 like a very fat doughnut 

 with a very small hole for 

 the waist. 



Along the roads outside 

 Delhi in winter one will see 

 patient donkeys with bare- 



