MR. WILDGOOSE. 
in order on the bed, and counted. Of course 
th*"i*e are various articles deficient, and some 
others that do not belong to Mr. Brown. Afiera 
great deal of squabbling the dhobi promises to bring 
the missing articles in a few days, to take back the 
articles that do not belong to him, and have them 
exchanged, but. m the meantime wishes his pay. He 
was going to Gam pol l to buy soap, starch, and soon, 
and he must have his money. Mr Brown takes a 
pencil, makes a calculation, and informs the dhobi 
that he has nothing to get until he brings the mi ssinij 
clothes and exchanges the old ones that don’t belong 
to him for what do. The washerman was obliged 
to acknowledge the statement as being just and reason* 
able, and took his departure, and so Mr. Brown got 
out of his difiiculties; but he was well aware all this 
sort of thing was only temporary. The creditors 
would be back again, and every time they came back 
the would be less easily dismissed. So Mr. Brown 
thought a go' d deal over these subjects : at last a 
bright idf'a struck him. A young man over the ridge 
had newly come out from England to learn coffee 
planting under an old stager. Mr. Wildgoose was flush 
of money, his “governor” was rich, he merely 
intended to stay with the old stager until he had 
lenmed a little about coffee planting, and then the 
“governor” was going to give him money to buy a 
piece of land for himself. Meanwhile Mr. Wildgoose 
devoted almost the whole of his time to shooting. 
It was all the same what he shot : if he could not 
get an elk or deer, be shot perroquets and squirrels. 
He was an enthusiastic sportsman, or rather promiscuous: 
he always shot something. Mr. Wildgoose had often 
envied Mr. Brown’s double-barrelled gun, and asked 
if he would sell it, but he would n’t. N'-cessity works 
wonders Mr. Brown sat down and wrote Wildgoose: 
“Yon can have the gnn for £2d : terms £10 cash, 
cheque for £10, and imm'^diate payment.” A eooly 
was despatched with the tiote, and brought back the 
reply, wiutten on a coffeu leaf, “ I ’ll take it and be 
over to-morrow. ” The plan of writing on a coffee 
leaf was adopted, when writer bad no pencil or paper 
in his pocket, and w’as thus : on the soft under Side 
of the leaf, scratch so as nut to perforate it; a pin or 
point of a knife wdl do, failing which a sharp splinter 
from a log wi’l do. T‘ e writing, when newly done, 
is invisible, but in a shirt tim3 the writing gets 
dark brown, and is as discmctly 1 giblu on the green as 
ink on paper. Mr. Wildgoose did come over with 'ds 
p.oekets filled with bullets and his flask with powder. 
They got hold of an uhl door, placed it against a bank 
behind the bungalow, 70 yards oiF, and commence 
