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remembered he had relations at an Estate about 

 four miles distant, and that his daughter had 

 once accompanied him there, so with very 

 faint hope of success he set out to see if she 

 could have gone thither. This was what had 

 happened, and the children were found bright 

 and happy, and much enjoying their new 

 surroundings, they had planned a little tour of 

 the neighbourhood staying three days on each 

 Estate. Needless to say they were brought 

 back at once — and at the next afternoon 

 muster presented before the Dorei to be 

 punished. Rob fined each of the girls. The 

 father of the boy made a special request that he 

 would beat him, but when cross-questioned his 

 answers were so funny that Rob could only 

 laugh, as did all the coolies. He said, Adam- 

 like, that the elder girl was the ringleader, that 

 she promised him one eighth of a bushel of 

 rice, a new cloth, and to work in the same 

 gang as herself ; that, when he refused to go, 

 she and the other girl, each seized one of his 

 hands and ran away with him until they had 

 taken him so far he was afraid to come back. 

 He was dismissed with a severe reprimand. 

 All's well that ends well — and child nature 

 seems much the same, whether the faces be 

 white or brown. 



The work of "supplying" goes on apace. 

 More than four thousand cocoa plants have 



