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when he came to Harry Dutt's plot, so well laid out, 

 clean, thrifty, with wonderful crops. His Highness 

 said, ''Whose plot is this?'' I replied, "Harry Dutts/ 

 Come here Harry. The Maharajah wants to speak to 

 you.'' Harry stepped forward and answered a lot of 

 questions. Then the Maharajah said, "Well, Harry, 

 come and take charge of my palace gardens and I will 

 pay you one-hundred and fifty rupees a month with 

 allowances." Harry looked at me and said, "What 

 shall I say to His Highness?" I answered, "You must 

 answer for yourself. You have your own life to live." 

 He hesitated a moment, then said, "Your Highness, I 

 thank you for your kind offer, but I think I had better 

 finish my course before I accept a position." A few 

 weeks later I received a letter from Mr. Ray Carter, of 

 Moga, who had started the school for training low-caste 

 converts to go out as village teachers to their own peo- 

 ple. Mr. Carter felt that it was necessary for these 

 teachers to have a knowledge of better farming and so 

 wanted to add an Agricultural Department to the school. 

 In his letter Mr. Carter asked if we had any Indian 

 Christian student well enough trained to take charge. 

 I called Harry Dutt to my office and read Mr. Carter's 

 letter to him, and said, ' ' Now, Harry, what do you think 

 of this for next year?" He replied that he had the 

 Maharajah's offer to consider. I advised him to think 

 of both. He took ten days' leave to go to both the 

 King's palace and the Mission School to look the jobs 

 over. When he returned he walked into my office and 

 told me that he had accepted the position in the Mission 

 School at Moga at seventy-five rupees a month. I asked 

 him why he had accepted the Mission job on half the 

 pay the Maharajah would have given. 



