26 T/te Manager. 



and badgering, until he arrives at a final settlement 

 with his worst enemy \hepatwari. All this time the 

 Manager is enveloped in a dense cloud of falsehood 

 and chicanery, which he disperses, sometimes with 

 advantage to himself, but, too often, with profit to the 

 peculating patwari. These village-accounts are like 

 the stars, eternal ; but unlike them, gloomy and 

 dark offering little light to the Manager, except such 

 as his own skill and science may evolve. But the 

 intricacies of this fell branch of a Manager's work 

 the Assistant must find out for himself ; I offer 

 merely a descriptive outline, which the space at my 

 command forbids me to enlarge. 



The Manager has also to do the ordering and guid- 

 ing of his Assistants as to all outdoor work ; and al- 

 though, as a rule, injunction and obedience are, in this 

 case, so to say, synonymous terms, yet it is worrying. 

 Generally, the Manager prefers the morning, before 

 going out, for writing his subdivisional letters and 

 orders, English and vernacular. These are not few. 

 All insubordination, all mismanagement or misbehav- 

 iour of native subordinates, all truculencies of ten- 

 ants, all matters referring to law or to land, and every- 

 thing dependent upon changes in the weather, are re- 

 ferred to him for orders. He is the alpha and omega 

 of the factory-system the sun, round which all the 

 lesser bodies move. 



