BAZAR ACCOUNTS. 
stances, did not need any further pressing — but 
drank oflP the champagne. After he had done so, he 
made a great many other purchases : the cart — load 
was fully made up, indeed it was a very heavy load, 
and the cart-men had to receive some extra hire, in 
order to be induced to load it all. Mr. Brown had 
been in Kandy several times since, and had called and 
asked for his bill as .he had some spare money to 
l>ay it with, but the answer always was, “No hurry : 
any time will do ; perhaps you may be wanting 
something else before long” — and the result was that 
he did want, or fancied he wanted, something else, 
and bought it. It was thus that Mr. Brown; with- 
out meaning it, or rather unwittingly, got into, or 
rather was seduced into, debt. 
A few days after Mr. Brown had settled his security 
for Mr. Robertson Mr. Solomons sent in his bill, 
amounting to somewhat about £20. Along with the bill 
he wrote a polite letter, stating that he had met with 
some heavy losses, and had a promissory note for a large 
amount to meet in a few days, and a remittance 
would highly oblige. Now if Air. Brown had had 
the money he would have paid it at once : he was a 
quite correct man in business matters, but as he could 
not pay it he folded up the letter and bill, endorsed it 
“ Solomons, Kandy, £20, unpaid,” and put it away 
on file amom^st a number of other papers, very prob- 
ably unpaid accounts also, and entirely dismissed 
the subject from his mind. This was the way Mr. 
Br )wn seitled (however temporary) his accounts : a 
method it must be confessed much more agreeable 
to himself than it was to Mr. Solomons. 
A shadow now appeared to darken the window. On 
going out to see what it was, a i^or rather the bazar- 
man was seen standing in the corner of the verandah. 
( Jn asking him what he wanted (Mr. Brown knew very 
•v^well, or hid a very good guess, what was warned) the 
. ^jL^|ll,|eply was * ‘S umma. Swjjma vandura^^ — “Nothing, 
for nothing ” — to whicKT^frTTBrw very prompt- 
ly replied “ S umma tmt he did not po — which 
- means in English go. On the country he stood still, 
put his hand into his waist-cloth, which bulged out 
^donsiderably, and took therefrom handful after handfull 
«|v^i small pieces of paper which he laid down 
pieces 01 paper wnicn ne laia aown on the table. 
/Mr. Brown seeing he was fairly in for it, sat down, 
took pen and paper, and read off the pieces of paper: — 
A bottle of oil — how much — 7d. — marked down the 
amount; coconuts, salt-fish, curry stuffs, and it would 
be endless stating all I he small items, which were read 
off ; the bazar-mnn stated the price, until they were 
all gone over. Now these small pieces of paper were 
prders given by Mr. Brown, for articles used in the cook- 
