Excerpt from Punchi Nona: A Story of Female Education and Village Life in Ceylon But I am writing all this about names in general when I ought to be saying something about this name in particular. Punchi Nona means little lady She was not at all what you would call a lady at the time when my story begins; but I hope we shall find, as the story proceeds, that She got to deserve the title afterwards, and it will be my business to try and Show you how She got to be a true lady in the best sense of the term. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.