CONTENTS. 
risions for Dimbula ; No pint bottlea ; The eagle’s 
nest; The journey’s end; An elephant; Doors 
locked ; A midnight encounter ; A dirty “boy”; 
Kashly-planned holidays ; Stories about “ coffee”; 
The past and the future ; Contentment, 
CHAPTER XXXIV. 
Conductors and their Wives. 
CHAPTER XXXV. 
A Would-be Estate Proprietor of the Olden Time. 
CHAPTER XXXVI. 
A Would-be Estate Proprietor of the Olden Time : 
A Superintendent of the olden days. 
CHAPTER XXXVII. 
Kandy in Early Planting Days. 
CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
Jungle Tailors, Servants, and Courts. 
CHAPTER XXXIX. 
What Became of a Young Planter’s Outfit, or 
The early experiences of Mr. Fresh. 
CHAPTER XL. 
Further Experiences of Mr. Fresh : — 
Holing a clearing ; Debtors ; Doctors and demons, 
CHAPTER XLI. 
Further Experiences of Mr. Fresh : — 
Estate accounts ; Paying coolies ; Estate roads ; 
Stick bridges. 
CHAPTER XLII. 
Experiences of Mr. Stale ; — 
How Mr. Stale proposed to build a chimney to 
his bungalow ; Man-traps ; Gardens ; Minatchi and 
the marigolds and her lovers ; Caste among coolies ; 
Drunkenness among the working- classes in Ceylon 
and Britain. 
CHAPTER XLIII. 
Further Experiences of Mr. Stale : — 
A novel mode of chimney building ; A contretemps ; 
The smoke in the wrong place; The “boy” acts 
as a consoler, but adds fuel to the flame of dis- 
appointment ; Mr. Stale in a bad humour ; Aston- 
ishment of the “boy’’ at his master’s perspicacity; 
Extensive thieving in the kitchen ; The “ boy ” 
receives notice to quit ; A strange use for a 
