Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Practice
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.
- Twenty Years After
- Dis Aliter Visum
- De Profundis
- The Unlimited “Draw” of “Tick” Boileau
- My Christmas Caller
- The History of a Crime
- Prisoners and Captives
- “From Olympus to Hades”
- “Les Miserables.”
- A Nightmare of Rule
- What Came of It
- An Official Secret
- Le Roi en Exil
- A Scrap of Paper
- The Mystification of Santa Claus
- “Love in Old Cloathes”
- The Case of Adamah
- A Tale of ’98
- A Rather More Fishy Case
- The House of Shadows
- The Confession of an Impostor
- The Judgment of Paris
- Five Days After Date
- The Hill of Illusion
- Le Monde ou L'On S'Amuse
- An Intercepted Letter
- The Recurring Smash
- How Liberty Came to the Bolan
- “Under Sentence”
- The Dreitarbund
- In Memoriam
- On Signatures
- The Great Strike
- “The Biggest Liar in Asia”
- Deputating a Viceroy
- A Merry Christmas
- The New Year's Sermon
- New Year's Gifts
- Mister Anthony Dawking
- “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- The Wedding Guest
- The Tracking of Chuckerbutti
- “Bread upon the Waters”
- A Free Gift
- A Hill Homily
- The “Kingdom” of Bombay
- Bombaystes Furioso
- A Day Off
- The Unpunishable Cherub
- In Gilded Halls
- “Till the Day Break”
- The Fountain of Honour
- The Burden of Nineveh
- His Natural Destiny
- That District Log-Book
- An Unequal Match
- A Horrible Scandal
- An Exercise in Administration
- My New Purchase
- Exercises in Administration
- The Dignity of It.
- Exercises in Administration
- In Wonderland
- In the Year ’92
- “A Free Hand”
- Susannah and the Elder
- The Coming K
- What the World Said
- An Interesting Condition
- The Comet of a Season
- Gallihauk's Pup
- The Inauthorated Corpses
- One Lady at Wairakei
- The Princess in the Pickle-Bottle
- Why Snow Falls at Vernet
- The Cause of Humanity
- appendices
- Glossary
What Came of It
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Practice
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.
- Twenty Years After
- Dis Aliter Visum
- De Profundis
- The Unlimited “Draw” of “Tick” Boileau
- My Christmas Caller
- The History of a Crime
- Prisoners and Captives
- “From Olympus to Hades”
- “Les Miserables.”
- A Nightmare of Rule
- What Came of It
- An Official Secret
- Le Roi en Exil
- A Scrap of Paper
- The Mystification of Santa Claus
- “Love in Old Cloathes”
- The Case of Adamah
- A Tale of ’98
- A Rather More Fishy Case
- The House of Shadows
- The Confession of an Impostor
- The Judgment of Paris
- Five Days After Date
- The Hill of Illusion
- Le Monde ou L'On S'Amuse
- An Intercepted Letter
- The Recurring Smash
- How Liberty Came to the Bolan
- “Under Sentence”
- The Dreitarbund
- In Memoriam
- On Signatures
- The Great Strike
- “The Biggest Liar in Asia”
- Deputating a Viceroy
- A Merry Christmas
- The New Year's Sermon
- New Year's Gifts
- Mister Anthony Dawking
- “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- The Wedding Guest
- The Tracking of Chuckerbutti
- “Bread upon the Waters”
- A Free Gift
- A Hill Homily
- The “Kingdom” of Bombay
- Bombaystes Furioso
- A Day Off
- The Unpunishable Cherub
- In Gilded Halls
- “Till the Day Break”
- The Fountain of Honour
- The Burden of Nineveh
- His Natural Destiny
- That District Log-Book
- An Unequal Match
- A Horrible Scandal
- An Exercise in Administration
- My New Purchase
- Exercises in Administration
- The Dignity of It.
- Exercises in Administration
- In Wonderland
- In the Year ’92
- “A Free Hand”
- Susannah and the Elder
- The Coming K
- What the World Said
- An Interesting Condition
- The Comet of a Season
- Gallihauk's Pup
- The Inauthorated Corpses
- One Lady at Wairakei
- The Princess in the Pickle-Bottle
- Why Snow Falls at Vernet
- The Cause of Humanity
- appendices
- Glossary
Summary
Published: Civil and Military Gazette, 17 September 1886.
Attribution: In Scrapbook 3 (28/3, p. 49).
Text: Civil and Military Gazette.
Notes: An Indian Finance Commission was at work on the matter of ‘retrenchment’. RK had made fun of it earlier in the uncollected poem ‘Parturiunt Montes’ in the CMG, 26 April 1886: ‘Let the fat Departments blench, We are yearning to retrench / In a clip-and-cut and skin-removing style!’ (Poems, iii, 1705). ‘What Came of It’ is another burlesque of the Commission's efforts.
Reprinted in the Martindell–Ballard pamphlets and in Harbord, ii, 1093–5.
Being extracts from the diary of Orion Golightly, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, now:– Employé No. 1159 in the service of the Government of India, Limited.
April 14 th.––, 1902––The recommendations of our thirty-fourth Retrenchment Committee have been published, and come in force next month. They seem rather drastic. I didn't mind the regulation about washing nibs to prevent expense, because my mehter helped me; but I do not like the order enforcing the use of one's shirt front as a blotting pad and pen-wiper. Besides writing resolutions on the back of used D.O. covers is smudgy work. I recollect the time when we used to do our work on white paper with a Government stamp. Heighho! They are going to appoint a permanent Retrenchment Committee with absolute powers. Don't quite see where they can retrench further. I've put in twenty-three years’ service, and I'm drawing Rs. 210 a month. Have to do my own bazaar before office, and stuffed bullock's heart is cheap but indigestible.
April 24 th.––Government of India let out by contract to the lowest tenderer. Economical, but doesn't strike me as likely to be pleasant. Hear that a man of the name of Dowler has arrived from England offering to “run the blooming show” for five hundred a month and vittles. Don't quite like the allusion to blooming show. It seems disrespectful. However, the Retrenchment Committee say it's all right, and I'm a “haristocrat” for objecting. I'm supposed to be Finance Minister, I believe; but I look after the Burdwan, Delhi, and Orissa Sections as well, when I can get travelling allowance to go there.
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- The Cause of Humanity and Other StoriesThe Cause of Humanity and Other Stories Uncollected Prose Fictions, pp. 69 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018