Excerpt from Divers Ditties: Chiefly Written in India With Appendices Nearly all the verses in this book appeared originally in the Allahabad Pioneer. I am in debted to the proprietors of that journal for permission to reproduce them in a collected form. And I have the kind permission of the proprietors of London Society to include the lines 'to Bonnie Bell' in my collection. I have a similar permission as regards 'dido Anglo Indica' from the proprietors of the Literary World. As there are a good many references in the verses to experiences familiar to Magistrates and Judges in India, I have thought it not out of place to print as Appendices three papers which have a bearing on their work. These also are reproduced, with permission, from the Pioneer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.