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refreshed, looks over his letters, perhaps, or writes 

 one or two, then comes tiffin, or the mofussil 

 mid - day meal, which is, in fact, the principal 

 meal of the day. If he gets a newspaper, after 

 tiffin, he sits and cons it over a comfortable smoke, 

 and, perhaps, in the hot weather lies down for a 

 couple of hours under the punkah. At 3 p. m. or so 

 he rises, and then most of the writing business of the 

 day is got through. The factory " writer " comes with 

 the books and accounts, and they are examined ; the 

 items written out, opposite the vernacular, in English 

 by the Assistant, and the amounts totalled and balan- 

 ces checked, and the books initialed or signed. After 

 this follows a confab, long or short, with the gomashta 

 jemadar or headman of the factory, who takes his 

 orders from the Assistant, and some pointed censure 

 also sometimes, about the work present and to come. 

 By this time evening is closing in, and the Assistant 

 may walk or ride out again to see some work close 

 at hand, or may look up the factory cattle, and see 

 how they are being fed and generally cared for, or 

 he may take a stroll round the stables and garden, 

 and then in to dinner. 



This somewhat monotonous life to some is fre- 

 quently enlivened by a run with the " bobbery pack." 

 The " bobbery pack " proper is usually a joint-stock 

 affair the property jointly of two or three assistants 



