Crossword-Solution: PUNKHA 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The weather appears quite as hot as when we started, and the wind comes in, hot and dry, and makes one feel like a herring of the reddest; while an infernal punkha is creaking its monotonous tune, as it flaps to and fro in the next room, making one again realize to the full, “the pleasures of the plains.” We begin, in fact, to discover that the thorns which were not forthcoming on the Cashmere roses are too surely to be found elsewhere.

Most of her drawing-room chairs were of Singapur rush-work; the mat was of green grass, the _punkha_ frills of art muslin.

What should she do? waken her husband?--or wait till the morning? Would it not be best to watch over him silently while he slept? It might move him to gratitude when he should learn of the sacrifice of her night's rest! The weather was warm and muggy in spite of the _punkha_ waving in the room, pulled by the uncertain hand of a coolie half-asleep in the verandah.

Open windows not far from the ground offered an easy opportunity for entrance into the house of evil characters bent on mischief, and even the drowsy _punkha_ coolie in the verandah would be none the wiser.