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what they proposed calling him, baby was named with- 
out ceremony. LUCHMAN did have an interview with 
one of his * country parsons” and paid a large price— 
“for him—for a charm to hang round baby’s neck. With 
| this on it is hoped he will grow up healthy, industrious, 
: and thrifty. It is said that Hindoos fear “‘ Gods many 
and Lords many” and possibly this is so, but the real 
God they serve differs but little from the almost universal 
obje& of other men’s care and thought, viz., mammon. 
f The great difference is in this, LUCHMAN’S idea of getting 
rich is to keep and conserve what he gets, while that of 
the majority of others consists rather in the ambition and 
ffort to get more. LUCHMAN 1 is not merely thrifty ; he he 
\ jis absolutely mean. ~He-has not been two years away 
from India, whence he came a veritable pauper, and yet 
he owns acow and has something towards another hidden 
beneath the ground under his fire place in the corner of 
his room, or may-be in the Government Bank, At the 
age of two years, by which time RAMPERSAUD can walk 
and talk as well as European children at three, he is 
committed to the care of a granny who has charge of the 
creche, with his little tin saucepan of boiled rice and 
callaloo or something equally tasty, to swing in a ham- 
mock or play about upon the ground while SOFEE is at 
work. Here, with scant attention—necessarily scant 
seeing the granny has twenty other babies to mind— 
RAMPERSAUD takes his first lesson in looking after 
“number one.” He is not quarrelsome except in a very 
mild way and the robust methods of the children of stur- 
dier races is quite foreign to him. Young as he is the 
charaéteristics of race shew themselves in him and what 
others get noisily and with much strife he secures by 
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