Some quaint jokes - kabuliwalah

They had many quaint jokes,which afforded them much amusement. Seated in front of him, looking down on his gigantic frame in all her tiny dignity, Mini would ripple her face with laughter, and begin: "O Kabuliwalah, Kabuuliwalah, what have you got in your bag?" And he would reply, in the nasal accents of the mountaineer: "An elephant!"

Not much cause for merriment, perhaps; but how they both enjoyed the witticism! And for me, this child's talk with a grown-up
man had always in it something strangely fascinating. Then the Kabuliwalah, not to be behindhand, would take his turn: Well, little one, and when are you going to the father-in-law's house?" Now most small Bengali maidens have heard long ago about the father-in-law's house; but we, being a little new-fangled, had kept these things from our child, and Mini at this question must have been a trifle bewildered. But she would not show it, and with ready tact replied: "Are you going there?" Amongst men of the Kabuliwalah's class, however, it is well known that the words father-in-law's house have a double meaning.

It is a euphemism for jail, the place where we are well cared for, at no expense to ourselves. In this sense would the sturdy
pedlar take my daughter's question. "Ah," he would say, shaking his fist at an invisible policeman, "I will thrash my father-in-law!" Hearing this, and picturing the poor discomfited relative, Mini would go off into peals of laughter, in which her formidable friend would join.

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