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You are away up in the northwest corner of India, only three hundred miles from the Khyber Pass over into Afghanistan.

The people you see passing are middle and lower-class natives, shoppers and shopkeepers, artisans and servants. The buying of a rug or a piece of cloth at that shop down there on the left, where you see goods hung out for show, means a battle of wits; everybody shops here with much impassioned argument and clever jest.

The buildings are plastered, stuccoed and white- washed along the street-fronts; see the flat roof with battlements around the edge and ladders to mount from one-story to another. Look at the pitch roofed balcony of that building on the left-the one whose ridgepole comes just under the second tower of the mosque; a huge black bird roosts much of the time on those horizontal bars - is he there now? 

It is a curious variety in windows that you can see from here. Try the experiment of counting the different shapes and sizes and styles, and you will surprise yourself by the number reached before you lose you way among the jumbled roofs:-- windows tall, windows wide, some closed by bars, some with lattice-work suggestive of perilous romance.

Rudyard Kipling has many a time walked through this very street. The opening scenes of his famous story of "Kim" are laid here. Do you remember his night adventures about these very streets --- "The stealthy prowl through the dark gullies and lanes, the crawl up a water-pipe, and sights and sounds of the women's world in the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from house top to housetop under cover of the hot dark ---"

In a volume called "Life's Handicap, or Tales of Mine Own People", Kipling has a marvelously impressive description of these roofs at night. Scidmore's "Winter India" makes interesting mention of the place.

[[italics]] From Notes of Travel, No. 9, copyright, 1994, by Underwood & Underwood. [[/italics]]

Looking S. W. down a street of shops and homes, Lahore, India.

Vue prise au Sud Ouest d’une rue de boutiques et de maisons d’habitation, Lahore, Inde.

Blick Südwestlich in eine Strasse mit Läden und Wohnungen, Lahore, Indien.

Mirado al Sudoeste, por una calla de tiendas y casas, Lahore, India.

Utsikt öfver en gata i Lahore, Indien.

Юговосточный видь на улицу сь лавками и жилищами, Лагорь, Индія.

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