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withstand ; and, indeed, the young Assistant will, as a 

 rule, find it difficult to curb the jemadar, even when 

 confined to his own proper walk. When first put in 

 charge of an outwork, the Assistant will necessarily 

 be very much under the tutorship (we had almost 

 said at the mercy) of his leading amlahs. But the 

 latter term is perhaps too sweeping, because, if the 

 Assistant is active and anxious to penetrate all the 

 intricacies of his work, he will never consider it a 

 task of supererogation to personally test and satisfy 

 himself upon all the matters connected with, and 

 reported upon by, the jemadar. His own common 

 sense will teach him that such constant investigation 

 must be so regulated, that the jemadar may never 

 dream that there is any suspicion connected there- 

 with. Not infrequently the jemadar of long service, 

 regarding the young Assistant as his pupil, and, being 

 a native, the sequence is, that he puts on a certain 

 amount of swagger which, though the newcomer from 

 England may not recognise as such, his subordinates 

 in the factory are fully alive to, and they behave 

 to \hQjemadar in proportion to the amount of " side " 

 he can put on. The behaviour of the jemadar 

 even to the softly attuned tones of his voice when 

 speaking is obsequious to the extreme to the Mana- 

 ger. To that grave and great of all the factories, he 

 does not speak above a whisper, while to the Assistant 



