Indian Tales

On the strength of this concession and his accumulated oil-savings, Janki Meah took a second wife–a girl of the Jolaha main stock of the Meahs, and singularly beautiful. Janki Meah could not see her beauty; wherefore he took her on trust, and forbade her to go down the pit. He had not worked for thirty years in the dark without knowing that the pit was no place for pretty women. He loaded her with ornaments–not brass or pewter, but real silver ones–and she rewarded him by flirting outrageously with Kundoo of Number Seven gallery gang.