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and drivers seem to stop and go on pretty much as they 

 like. Our host told us a story which if it was not true 

 might very easily have been so. 



An Eurasian guard — nearly all the guards are half- 

 castes — was hailed by a respectable-looking old man of 



A NATIVE WATER-WHEEL. 



the same race travelling in a second-class carriage, who 

 begged him to awaken him should he be asleep when they 

 got to (we will say) Lilla station. After about a couple 

 of hours' journey the train arrived. But the guard com- 

 pletely forgot his compatriot's request, and it only flashed 



across his mind when they had steamed a mile or so beyond 



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