IN THI BUNGALOW. 



but js perhaps most numerous in Upper 

 India during the rains where he will 

 invariably make his appearance on your 

 well-arranged dinner table and feed 

 greedily from your natty silver dishes 

 of figs and plums and dates. To the 

 careful housewife it is particularly exas- 

 perating on her return from the Club 

 to enter the dining room 

 to inspect her table before 

 proceeding to dress, and 

 find all her dessert dishes 

 a mass of black ants ! 

 And yet this is the common experience 

 of many ! ! How to prevent it you 

 will ask? You will know every Indian 

 servant knows the dodge of placing 

 the feet of your table legs in glass 

 saucers of water ; and of tucking or 

 pinning up the corners of the cloth so 

 that they shall not touch the floor. Also 

 of only putting the dessert on the table 

 just before the guests arrive. But then 

 it is often forgotten altogether and the 

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