The Archive · 1903

Moving Home in India

Tam afraid you will be thinking that ight. of the fact that the relying upon me for a little Indian gossip. the fact is that I have Deen moved to another. and Tam ths ful to say larger station. No one who has not been hrough it. can have any idea of the amount of packing, bustle, worry and fatigue which a simple trans for causes to a married man who has been settled in one place for four or five years.

the station which one is leaving is large and that to which one is going is small it would ye foolish to sell one's kit as there would probably be difficulty in buying again at the new station; and vice-versi_one cannot sell on leaving a small station as there is seldom anyone to buy, The result is, that we moved with all our_ belongings: chairs, tables and beds; pictures, curtains and sofas; cooking pots and a hundred and one miscel-Jancous articles Many people even take their gardens (I mean the plants) with them. I know that I filled up 20 carte by road and a goods waggon and a-half, a horse box and a carriage truck by rail besides one Ist and one 3rd-clays carriage. Ap soon as my curts were loaded it came on to pelt with rain and had I not had the forethought to borrow some. tar-from Ralli Brother's Co: ton agency my kit would have been soaked. At last we have settled down in our new home and very gad we are that all the muddle and confusion ix over and we can now appreciate the society to which we have been strangers so long. 1 can also, now. recommence my re letters which I have not bed able to write for the Jast few mai's.

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