28 The Manager. 



(lawsuit) throbs along in three great arteries civil, 

 criminal, and revenue. In the Civil Courts, the Mana- 

 ger prosecutes thebond-bound zemindar, the swindling 

 carter under a five years' agreement, the defaulting 

 servant, and the peculating patwari ; or, occasionally, 

 the tables are turned upon him by all four parties. For 

 the immediate supervision of such cases he employs 

 an ingenuous gentleman called a p&*/(ftative pleader), 

 who takes fees. Criminally, he also wages war upon the 

 perjured bond-bound zemindar, the similarly perjured 

 carter under a five years' agreement, the defaulting 

 servant, and the peculating patwari, when he can "run 

 in" these latter. Two other new patients present them- 

 selves for legal treatment the trespasser and the 

 thief. At this tribunal the interests of the Manager 

 are usually protected by that spotless specimen, the 

 muktar (pleader, minor). In the Revenue Depart- 

 ment, presided over by the civil and small cause 

 judge, all suits relating to renewal of leases from 

 zemindars, realising of outstanding balances from 

 ryots, boundary disputes, rights of occupancy, en- 

 hancement, distraint, etc., ad infinitum, drag their 

 weary length along " with ever lengthening chain ; " 

 for, is not a suit before a munsiff (judge of small 

 causes), the first cousin of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce ? 

 These suits are also in the tender care of the vakil. 

 Sometimes a case of either of the two first descriptions 



