[Following the Equator by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator CHAPTER XLIX 1/27
CHAPTER XLIX. He had had much experience of physicians, and said "the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not." -- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. It was a long journey--two nights, one day, and part of another day, from Bombay eastward to Allahabad; but it was always interesting, and it was not fatiguing.
At first the night travel promised to be fatiguing, but that was on account of pyjamas.
This foolish night-dress consists of jacket and drawers.
Sometimes they are made of silk, sometimes of a raspy, scratchy, slazy woolen material with a sandpaper surface.
The drawers are loose elephant-legged and elephant-waisted things, and instead of buttoning around the body there is a drawstring to produce the required shrinkage.
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