A PAPIER-MACHE GRANDFATHER. 37 



his wares around him. One, more enterprising than the 

 others, had got into our boat, and talked to us in queer 

 English all the way home. He was a papier-mache 

 manufacturer, and told us his grandfather was " made 

 of papier-mache." He meant, of course, his business. 

 We bought a few things, and he was most anxious to 

 enamel a crest or monogram on them, and very sceptical 

 when Alan said he had none with him. " But surely 

 the Sahib has it carved on him somewhere " — he meant 

 tattooed. 



