7 'he Factory -Assistant's Bungalow, etc. 1 1 



At the most, the company our Assistant is likely to 

 see will be, occasionally say, once or twice a month 

 a neighbouring assistant whose cultivation adjoins 

 his own, who may drop in for tiffin (or the mid- day 

 meal), and perhaps a visit once a week or so from 

 his Manager just to see how he is getting on, and 

 with whom he most likely returns to the Sudder 

 factory for the night as a pleasant change to the 

 monotony and dulness of the out-factory. If his 

 Manager is a family man, he may hear a few tunes 

 on the piano, and a few of the Old Country songs 

 which will remind him of those at Home ; and he 

 will return to his lonely bungalow the next morning 

 the better for the pleasant evening, one of the few 

 he is likely to pass until the cold season comes 

 round again, then he can, perhaps, get away to the 

 races, or to the Behar Volunteer Cavalry parades, 

 or to Calcutta for a few days, where his numerous 

 wants will inevitably lead him to China Bazar, there 

 to be assailed, by native brokers, hawkers, and middle- 

 men clinging to his gharry with cries of * tin-box,' 

 'orginette,' 'meershum pipe,' ' portmantoo,' 'esleepin- 

 suit,' ' ready med close,' ' photogripes taken,' etc. 



