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He said, "Sir, you remember that day you threatened 

 to expel me because I was lazy ? I was very angry with 

 you for speaking to me the way you did, but after think- 

 ing it over, I felt that you, a foreigner, were trying to 

 do something to help my people, and I was hindering 

 you, so I decided I would not be outdone by a foreigner. 

 I too would give my life to help my own Christian peo- 

 ple. I have accepted the lower salary in the Mission 

 School because I feel I can help my own people better 

 there than by accepting the larger salary and easier work 

 with Maharajah." 



When I was about to return to America, the Institute 

 was short-handed, and we were looking round for some 

 one to assist us. My colleagues unanimously agreed that 

 we ought to invite Harry Dutt back to teach. One of the 

 last pictures I saw of Harry Dutt was one in which he 

 was teaching several young princes how to use the Planet 

 junior wheel hoe. 



After we got fairly started, the Crown Prince and his 

 younger brother ad four companions from one of the 

 oldest and most influential states in India came for 

 training in farming and since that time we have usually 

 had some relative of one of the most ancient Indian royal 

 houses among our students. We are teaching not only 

 those from the bottom but those from the top. I con- 

 sider that if these young nobles, many of whom will oc- 

 cupy positions of great power, understand the 

 fundamental relation of larger crops to the better- 

 ment of India a great forward step will have been 

 taken. 



In the Allahabad district there are sixty-two village 

 schools, generally in charge of a middle-aged or elderly 

 gentleman who has never done a day's manual work in 



