344 A Sportswoman in India 



The Psychcological Society took the matter up, and it 

 was established as a fact that a figure had appeared to 

 certain people without their having foreknowledge of 

 the same. 



A word now about natives. Lay to heart that 



It is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan 



brown, 

 For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he wears the 



Christian down ; 

 And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the end 



of the late deceased, 

 And the epitaph drear, " A fool lies here who tried to hustle the 



East." 



It tires one to see the fixedness, the apathy, the 

 lifelessness, of a great population which should by rights 

 be up and stirring, trading and organising. There is a 

 strange mingling in the Oriental of impassiveness and 

 childishness, of fierce passions and primitive ideas ; 

 there is also in him an entire lack of truthfulness. 



I met a lady who had been carried up to the hills 

 part of the way in a dhoolie. The natives who were 

 carrying her, finding themselves alone with her, stopped 

 and put her down in the middle of a wild scrub 

 country, making her understand with gesticulations of 

 horror that a tiger was coming, but that they would 

 brave all danger and boldly carry her on for more 

 money. 



Alive to the native nature, she said quietly, " Let the 

 tiger come" and lay comfortably back in her dhoolie. 

 The servants disappeared, and she was left entirely 



