CONTENTS. 
moustache; Ndlaku vd'' ; “Second thoughts ju*e 
always best ; Coolies’ complaints ; Illustrations 
of promptitude and decision and obstinacj^ 
CHAPTER XLIV. 
PuRTHiB Experiences of Me. Stale : — 
Mr Stale’s substitute for the long-desired chimney ; 
The position of kitchen cooly ; The boy and the 
cooly ; The cooly’s morning excursion and other 
troubles ; Master’s shirts and saddle ; Strange con- 
«:luct of his gallant steed ; The weakness of human 
creatures; Friends sometimes de trap ; “Tijffs” be- 
tween friends ; The best way of settling them : 
Idle gossip and its eflPects ; ‘ ‘ Save me from my 
friends ” ; Social joking ; Advice to those who hear 
rumours. 
CHAPTER XLV. 
Happiness and the Pursuit of it : — 
Happiness and the pursuit of it ; The attendant 
imps ; The charm of contentment, and some of the 
causes of discontent ; Mr. John and his bottle ; 
“ The random confessions of discontent”; The pins 
of discontent ; “ Muckle cry and little woo ” ; Jungle 
rills and great rivers ; The “ doldrums ” of life 
and of coffee planting ; The final cast of tlie anchor ; 
A jungle track ; Rice borrowing and lending thirty 
years ago ; Cartmen’s vehicles ; Rice contractors 
and their troubles ; The fate of a consignment of 
coffee ; A difficulty happily overcome. 
CHAPTER XLVI. 
The Visit of a Silversmith and its Results : — 
“ 07 'u tattdn varadu ” ; Speaking at, and not speak- 
ing to ; Why the silversmith’s advent is not pleas- 
ant news for “master”; The “guileless” cooly, 
male and female ; The bungalow in a state of 
siege; Master creates a feeling of jealousy on the 
estate ; The effect of the silversmith’s arrival on 
the relations between husband and wife, and the 
ardent male and the careless female lover ; Human 
nature the same the whole world over ; Love a 
thing of the past, settlements the present order 
of the day ; The arrival of the tattdn ; The 
work and the gossip in the verandah ; Why the 
tattdn was married ; The silversmith’s wife ; The 
way she increased his money ; The tattdn and 
master’s orders ; The wife and the master : the 
latter outwitted ; Arrival of the periya durai ” ; 
An awkward position ; A scuffle and its results. 
A sudden death and a quicker resurrection ; Bad 
conduct and punishment of the tattdn^s wife ; An 
