The station-master-a solemn baboo, full of his own importance, becomingly clad in a waving white petticoat, with bare legs and elastic-sided boots, surmounted by a long cutaway frock-coat, topped by a black skull-cap, and finally decorated by a pen behind his ear-seemed totally unable to cope with the terrible problem he was set to solve.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
The clerk, pure and simple, has, within these later years, found his way to India, sitting side by side with the baboo, and consequently it is as easy to make a fortune in London as in Calcutta and Madras.
"From One Generation to Another"
Henry Seton Merriman
baboo Keshub Shunder Sen was conspicuous among the company.
"Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II"
Sarah Tytler