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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 170 — THE FOOLISH DOMINIE.[170]

Richard Francis Burton translation

Abuse and derision of schoolmaster are staple subjects in the East as in the West, (Quem Dii oderunt pædagogum fecerunt). Anglo-Indians will remember:

Miyán-ji ti-ti!

Bachche-kí gánd men anguli kí thi!

(Schoolmaster hum!

Who fumbled and fingered the little boy’s bum?)

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