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upon his father’s shoulder he viewed Georgetown with 
wonder and delight. SOFEE and one of the girls went 
too, and a happy party they were. The wonders of the 
Public Buildings, the railway, and the great stores and 
banks, afforded LUCHMAN something with which to com- 
pare the glories of dear Calcutta. RAMPERSAUD was 
hugely delighted and impressed, but the crowning point 
was the Museum, wherein he saw wonders many, including 
a real Bengal tiger. For days after his return home he 
was admired and sought after by all his companions. No 
tiger ever grew in size and ferocity as that tiger did 
according RAMPERSAUD’S increasingly artistic accounts 
of him. But a more thrilling sight even than the tiger 
met RAMPERSAUD’S vision at the Museum, it was the 
sight of a man whose face was terribly disfigured. He 
told them his story; it was to this effe&t. He lived in a 
village far away from cities in one of the Northern States 
and his work morning and evening took him through un- 
frequented ways in which at dusk one evening he was 
attacked by a tiger but luckily for him some friends were 
near by and the tiger was scared off. This story sank 
deep into RAMPERSAUD’S mind and appreciably dimin- 
ished the hankering he had felt at times to see his father’s 
country. 
Play however soon gives place to work, and at nine or 
ten RAMPERSAUD goes with the other urchins to assist 
manuring the sugar canes or to water them, as the case 
may be. He earns fourpence a day at this, which LUCH- 
MAN carefully hoards. By and by when he has earned 
enough, another cow will be bought with the money. 
RAMPERSAUD never dreams of pocket money, for already 
his idea of the unpardonable sin is to part with money 
