This was quite a lot of money, but since it was night-time and since I was not perfectly confident of the route I did not bother to argue with the rickshaw-wallah.

"So that they might hang a Jew or two. Wallah!

They are all in the pay of Jews!" "Can you prove it?" "Wallah!

Why should the Jews think you sufficiently important to be murdered?" "Wallah!

" "Wallah!

You understand me?" "Wallah!

" "How do you know that?" "Wallah, how not? because he himself told me!

A box wallah with his attendant coolie, staggering under the weight of a huge box of Manchester goods, hurries by.

The pani-wallah finds amusement in practising his English on me.

One nice globe-trotting old lady, anxious, like me, to conciliate the natives, was having a cup of chocolate at Peliti's, and she insisted on sending out to see if the tikka-gharry wallah would like a cup!

The chicon-wallah came this morning and spread his wares on the verandah floorwhite rugs from Kashmir, embroidered gaily in red and green and blue; tinsel mats and table centres; pieces of soft bright silk; dainty white sewed work.

Wallah!" was the young Pasha's reply, and he struck the Tiger across the face with his pipe.

I arrived in Goa from the UK early in 1995, after scrapping a potentially lucrative yet un-inviting career in accountancy, originally no more than another faceless backpacker with meagre funds hoping to enjoy the chilled hazy life of a shack-wallah.

"'It is he,' said my brother, and within the hour we beheld the little bush-tent of Ibrahim Mahmud (made with cloths thrown over a bent bush) and his camel, near to which, his oont-wallah Suleiman Abdulla had kindled a fire and prepared food.

Picking up his big, green turban from beside his rug, I bound his arms to his sides and then, going forth, got baggage-cords from the oont-wallah and likewise his puggri, and Moussa Isa bound his feet and hands and knees.

"Then my brother called Suleiman Abdulla the oont-wallah, and bade Moussa Isa sleepwhich he did with his knife in his hand, having bound his foot to that of Ibrahim.

The local bootmaker or "chaplie-wallah" appeared, as by magic, on the scene, and chaplies were ordered.

" "They were rather far off, about a mile he thinks, but he couldn't get any nearer owing to a frightful ghari-wallah with deep piasses which lay between, so he put up his ornithoptic sight for 2000 yards and 'pumped lead' into the bheesties for half-an-hour.

It is said to be a source of the Ganges(!) and is an object of pilgrimage Ghari, Ghari Habibullah, Ghari Wallah, The Jehu of these parts.

My friend, the bottlee wallah, though very civil, could not afford me the information I required, nor have I yet been able to obtain it.

Upon my return, the bottlee wallah accompanied me to the carriage in waiting, and as I paused to notice some of the children in the school, introduced me to a group of his own sons and daughters, well decked out in jewels, and otherwise richly dressed.

"Wallah!" shouted Rrisa, furiously.

Wallah, Effendi!

I said 'Edinburgh'; and the medical wallah said, 'Righto!

and to an illustrious moonshee, "Hi, toom junglee-wallah!"