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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XXL 
Ak Old Bungalow under Examination and Made to 
Tell its own Story : — 
An old bungalow ; The building ; Masons and car- 
penters removing timber ; A difficult work ; Con- 
tract work ; The estate blacksmith ; After charcoal . 
CHAPTER XXII. 
•Store Erection, like Bungalow Building, a Work 
OF Disappointment and Delay : — 
Store building ; A nail in the pulper ; Pulper-cut ; 
More accidents ; How to meet difficulties ; Coffee 
and toast ; Coffee down the stream ; “ Small nails 
Clerihew’s patent ; How to dry coffee. 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
WiiY CqoLY Habitations are called “Lines”: — 
“Lines”; How coolies build; Old-fashioned huts; 
Sanitary measures ; A smoky atmosphere ; Night 
visits of coolies ; Lines on fire ; Cooly gardens ; 
Notices to leave ; A social animal ; Vegetable seeds 
for coolies. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
Coming to Ceylon on Chance op Getting What 
One was Worth : If Worth, then 
TO Get Nothing : — 
Mr. Jim son ; Muster at the lines ; Kanganies pre- 
sents ; Blowing the horn; Beware of “horns”; A 
queer visitor ; A New experience; “All done”; 
Poisoned by arsenic ; An emetic. 
CHAPTER XXV. 
A Turn in the Kaleidoscope of Mr. Millie’s 
Memory : Proprietors Once More 
‘‘ TO THE Fore ” : — 
“ Proprietor planters ” ; Captains, colonels, and 
generals; Mr. Meek; New plans; Pulping in the 
field : Let well alone ; Pay-day ; Striking an average ; 
Tropical climate and the temper. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
An “ Easy ” Proprietor and the Hard Work 
he Gave his Superintendent : — 
Mr. Easy; Amateur road-tracing ; Cross criticism ; 
Wanted a change ; Low spirits ; The trip to Bom- 
bay ; The return to the wattie ; A surprise ; Periya 
and sinna dnrais ; Cooly criticism ; Going home. 
