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not warm clothes themselves, you can never tell if 

 in the night they will not take the clothing off the 

 horses to wrap themselves up in. A constant source 

 of squabbling amongst Indian servants is the allot- 

 ment of their huts or houses. In the older Indian 

 bungalows there is usually enough of both these and 

 stabling, but in the newer ones there is not. It is 

 best, however, not to listen to any such complaints, 

 and somehow the disputants settle the knotty point 

 themselves. Every now and again it is advisable 

 to see who is living in your compound, as a most 

 enormous number of relations will turn up, who are 

 known as brothers (bhai) ; and if you don't look 

 out, you will find you are giving shelter on your 

 premises to several hundred individuals. Indian ser- 

 vants are always asking leave to attend weddings, 

 funerals, and religious ceremonies ; and I always 

 allow them to go, provided some arrangement is 

 made to carry on their work. They are clannish 

 in the extreme, and a substitute was always forth- 

 coming. In the hills "grass-cutters" are not re- 

 quired, as grass can be bought in the bazaars. The 

 country people look on the sale of this as a vested 

 right, and naturally resent any outsider cutting it or 

 interfering with them ; and, if they do, there is pretty 

 certain to be a disturbance and unpleasantness. If 



