Tooni grieved deeply that she could not give him a bottle, and a coral, and a perambulator, and often wondered that he consented to thrive without these things, but the fact remains that he did.

He even allowed himself to be oiled all over occasionally for the good of his health, which was forbearing in a British baby.

And always when Abdul shook his finger at him and said-- 'Gorah pah howdah, hathi pah JEEN! Jeldi bag-gia, Warren HasTEEN!'[3] he laughed and crowed as if he quite understood the joke.
[3] 'Howdahs on horses, on elephants JEEN! He ran away quickly did Warren HasTEEN!' 'Jeen' means 'saddles,' but nobody could make that rhyme! Popular incident of an English retreat in Hastings' time.
Tooni had no children of her own, and wondered how long it would be before she and Abdul must go again to Cawnpore to find the baby's father.

There need be no hurry, Tooni thought, as Sonny Sahib played with the big silver hoops in her ears, and tried to kick himself over her shoulder.

Abdul calculated the number of rupees that would be a suitable reward for taking care of a baby for six months, found it considerable, and said they ought to start at once.