Note 166 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17] (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
For this Anglo-Indian term, = a running courier, see vol. vii. 340. It is the gist of the venerable Joe Miller in which the father asks a friend to name his seventh-months child. “Call him ‘Cossid,’ for verily he hath accomplished a march of nine months in seven months.”