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weather has begun, our week will consist of a 

 series of alternate feasts and fasts. The 

 alternative is to keep more poultry, and a large 

 stock of tinned provisions, but alas ! tinned 

 provisions are extremely expensive, and this is 

 one of the reasons why so many young men 

 find themselves in debt. To show you the 

 ingenuity of our cook. I will give you to-day's 

 breakfast and dinner menu. At twelve o'clock 

 breakfast we had, eggs and bacon, and 

 macaroni dressed with cheese and tomato 

 sauce. Australian lambs' tongues, and a 

 vegetable curry, which together with hot scones, 

 apricot jam and butter made a very appetising 

 meal. The dinner menu consisted of soup (a 

 la Packet) boiled lulu fish with anchovy 

 sauce, roast duck, and custard pudding. 

 The lulu was an unexpected addition, it was 

 caught in our own dam the same afternoon and 

 was truly welcome. 



Now all this uncertainty and discomfort, and 

 the long journey to Kandy would be quite un- 

 necessary if only there were a little more enter- 

 prise in the community. Only five miles away is 

 a small township containing a post office, a Rest- 

 House, a blacksmith, a doctor, and a hospital, 

 but no beef-shop. Will it be believed, it is the 

 postal depot of a large planting district where 

 the planters absolutely have to send twenty and 

 twenty-five miles to Kandy for their meat ? 



