HAPPY INDIA 37 



because he has learnt to live in an exceedingly 

 cheap manner. 



His mansion is a mud hut with a roof of sticks 

 and palm-leaves ; his bedstead, if he has one, consists 

 of twisted sticks which raise his mattress, if he has 

 one, six inches from the ground. He has no door 

 or windows to his hut. He has a little fireplace and 

 cooking place outside. The sofa upon which he 

 can recline in leisure moments is made of mud outside 

 his sleeping chamber. He has one garment round 

 his loins and he has no other garment that he can 

 wear whilst he is washing that one garment. He 

 neither smokes nor drinks nor reads the newspaper ; 

 he goes to no entertainments. His religion teaches 

 him humility and contentment, and so he lives 

 contentedly until starvation lays him on his back. 



