For "Government office" read "drygoods clerkship" and it will fit more than one region of America: "The education that we give makes the boys a little less clownish in their manners, and more intelligent when spoken to by strangers.

On the other hand, it has made them less contented with their lot in life, and less willing to work with their hands.

The form which discontent takes in this country is not of a healthy kind; for, the Natives of India consider that the only occupation worthy of an educated man is that of a writership in some office, and especially in a Government office.

The village schoolboy goes back to the plow with the greatest reluctance; and the town schoolboy carries the same discontent and inefficiency into his father's workshop.
Sometimes these ex-students positively refuse at first to work; and more than once parents have openly expressed their regret that they ever allowed their sons to be inveigled to school." The little book which I am quoting from is called "Indo-Anglian Literature," and is well stocked with "baboo" English--clerkly English, hooky English, acquired in the schools.

Some of it is very funny, -- almost as funny, perhaps, as what you and I produce when we try to write in a language not our own; but much of it is surprisingly correct and free.