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...us in turn and each demanded his fee. In the museum there came a group of women literally loaded with jewellery and with many anklets tinkling and toes covered with rings. Each woman had a baby. We stopped and stared at them and they at us. We were mutually amused and we engaged them as much as the museum. We then rode to the station to engage our seats for tomorrow. Tomorrow morning we shall visit the Jaipur School of Arts where an effort is being made to bring the old arts into use again and to raise them to the old standards. We shall turn at noon and must ride all day till 10 pm to Agra, where the great wonder of all India is to be found - the Taj Mahal. We shall as usual fee the room man, the hot water man, the launch man, the watch man, the water, the driver - and having escaped the horde of those who cry bacsheesh we shall breathe freely till we reach the next port of our visitation.