CEYLON COCOA ESTATE 47 



CHAPTER IV 



We spent last Saturday and Sunday at P , 



Mr. M. and Rob played in a cricket match at 

 Kandy, and the rest of us stayed at home, 

 and indulged in croquet and tennis. It is a 

 delightful house to stay at, for you cannot only 

 count upon a kind and hearty welcome, but can 

 have your choice of amusement from golf to 

 cards, including tennis, croquet, tent pegging, 

 leaping and ball and bucket, and you are sure 

 of finding someone ready to join you in one or 

 all. These little outings send people back to 

 work with fresh zest, and only the most 

 confirmed misanthrope could grudge M the 

 hard worked planter" this little break in his 

 monotonous life. 



To-day arose one of the often recurring 

 worries consequent on caste. On this Estate 

 at present we have only three low caste coolies ; 

 all the others are of such very high caste that 

 they will not work as kitchen coolies, or be 

 horsekeepers, or go to Kandy with our beef- 



