I suppose it is because they see that I am, like the white officers, always cheerful and good tempered.

There is certainly no other reason that I know of." "The regiment have taken to call Mutteh Ghar 'the young sahib,'" the officer reported, at mess that day.

"I asked him about it, and he says no doubt it is because he is, like us, always good tempered and cheerful." "He is certainly very unlike the others," the major said.

"I have no doubt the men consider it a great compliment, to him, to call him so." "Do you know, colonel," one of the subalterns said, "the idea has struck me that he may be young Bullen, who may have joined the regiment surreptitiously, instead of going down to Calcutta." There was silence among the others.
"It can hardly be that, Macdonald," the colonel said, "though it is certainly curious that we seemed to feel that we knew his face, when he came up before us.

The young scamp could never have played such an audacious trick upon us." "I don't know, colonel," the major said, "he is just the sort of lad that would try such a scheme.