amusements. 
»ltiootmg, to try the gun. They shot all the foren oon, 
until the door was like a riddle, and Mr. Wildgoose » 
shoulder was so sore that be declared he would not be 
able to mark the check-roll that evening, and the 
gun was so dirty that he could not ram down another 
bullet took the gun and forked out the cheque 
for £10 and tbe cash for the other ten, and took his 
departure. Mr. Brown sat down and enclosed the 
cheque to Mr. Solomons as part of tbe payment of 
his a' count, and received a polite reply from that 
gentleman, noting having placed it to his credit, and 
reqiiesting the pleai-ureof his future orders. He was 
going to turn over anew lei^, and save, live on cui'ry 
and rice, and let his fi itnds laugh at him as they like. 
He seiit for the b'lzar-man, and settled his accounts. 
He even paid the dhobi th ^ next time he came, 
and oth r sundry small bills, after \%hich he found 
that toere were a few pounds left. This he put in a 
bag, tied it tight, and locked it up. 
CHAPTER IX. 
A Planter’s Amusements : Junule Lim. 
Mr, Brown had finished his morning coffee and 
roti, and he looked out from the end of the verandah. 
The mist was tumbling down thr >ugh the mountain 
gorge. It settled in all the valleys below ; there was 
no sign of its rolling upwards. A thick settled rain 
had set in, and evidently had determined to make a 
■day of it, perhaps two or three. The kang^ nies came 
up from the lines and represented tha: it was im- 
possible to work, which representation was assented 
to, and they were dismissed, W1 at was Mr. Brown 
to do with himself all day ? His check-rolls and ac- 
counts were all done up, his books had been read 
so often that it was needless his again turning over 
their le ives, his newspapers were n. w no longer, 
they were old papers. It wsl ^ evid ntly going to be 
a very dull day — hut it wasn’t. Jr. Jones comes 
running into the verandah N'ith a gun in each hand 
over t *e lock of one uas tied his handkerchief, and 
over the other an old stocking. He wiped the guns, 
put them inside the do r, and s.dd: “There sre 
elephants out in the top clearinQ-.” Just then the 
mist gave a most obliging roll off; they looked up 
and .-aw an elephant standing quite mo ionless at : he 
•e Ige of the jungle. There h-) stood; sometimes Ms 
trunk would curl up, and agin be let down, or he 
would wag to and fro his ears ; would give a dap 
occasionally, but his body was steady. Thore be stood ; 
