...at a London magistrate's court a young coster — a barrow boy — was summoned before me for selling rhubarb without a licence.

Despite the innocuous-sounding claim that the purpose of his article was ‘to provide a few notes on the characteristics of English used to-day by the educated Indian’ (Goffin 1934: 20), Goffin’s text is very much in the ‘Babu English’ tradition, that is, it derides the way in which Indians used English.

A northwest wind.

Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.