From another List. I recall a tale told about a gharri horse in Calcutta. A group of E/Os (who else!) were walking back to their ship berthed in Kidderpore Dock when they spied a lone gharri (Victoria) parked up with the gharri wallah asleep and the horse munching hay. They unlimbered the horse, led it to the gate, through the gate, back to the vicinity of the gharri. The horse was then reconnected to the gharri with the forks through the fence. All this without the gharri wallah waking up. Regrettably, the tale does not include the outcome once the gharri wallah had woken up to find he and his gharri one side of the fence and his horse on the other. ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

BISN - of course! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Feltham" <wulguru.wantok@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:53 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Tales from the Raj >From another List. I recall a tale told about a gharri horse in Calcutta. A group of E/Os (who else!) were walking back to their ship berthed in Kidderpore Dock when they spied a lone gharri (Victoria) parked up with the gharri wallah asleep and the horse munching hay. They unlimbered the horse, led it to the gate, through the gate, back to the vicinity of the gharri. The horse was then reconnected to the gharri with the forks through the fence. All this without the gharri wallah waking up. Regrettably, the tale does not include the outcome once the gharri wallah had woken up to find he and his gharri one side of the fence and his horse on the other. ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message