Dew and Mildew

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Excerpt from Dew and Mildew: Semi-Detached Stories From Karabad, India No sane and sober man believes in Ghosts to-day. The sane and sober man not only disbelieves in Ghosts - he knows that no such thing as a ghost exists, ever did exist, or ever will exist. Moreover, he has a fine, large, healthy, hearty contempt for the insane and unsober person who does believe in Ghosts. No sane and sober man believes in Curses (you know what I mean) to-day. The bare idea of an efficient and effectual Fakir's Curse makes him smile the smile of sad superiority. Not only does he disbelieve in the power of a fakir to curse and to blight - he knows that no fakir who can curse and blight exists, ever did exist, or ever will exist. Still, the sanest and soberest of us admits the existence of Coincidences. East of Suez, Coincidences flourish and sometimes attain a remarkably fine growth. Also the sanest and soberest of us admits that things occur that are undeniably Queer - but which are, of course, perfectly explicable when one knows all the facts. East of Suez, Queer Occurrences are much too frequent, and, though perfectly explicable, of course, when one knows all the facts, remain unexplained because one never does know all the "facts." One merely knows that the occurrences occur. However. Mr. Sohrabji Rustomji Potwallah, of Karabad, was a Parsi gentleman of parts - large parts. (He weighed twenty-three stone.) 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.