SPOILING A GOOD SERVANT, 
asked for no increase of wages. But, thinking he 
fully deserved it, he was told his monthly pay was 
increased by ten shillings, and from that day a 
very marked change for the worse giadually took 
place in the man. He got careless, in fact even 
impudent, and after a few months declared his pay 
was a great deal too small, and requested more. 
Now had the man been let alone and even kept 
up to the mark by an occasional reproof, whether 
lie needed it or not, it would have helped him to 
keep him sharp and attentive. He would not have 
become confined to an idea that he was a “very 
good man,” and that master could not do wdthout him. 
It is exactly the same, perhaps even to a greater 
extent with the Malabar estate cooly: to a greater 
extent, because he is more uninformed and ignorant . 
Raise a good man’s pay, and very likely you make 
him a bad one. It is not so with Europeans ; quite 
the reverse ; and it may be a curious and interest- 
ing subject of inquiry, Why is it tliat if you tell 
a Malabar cooly he is a good hard-working man, and 
intimate a rise of pay, that man is henceforth quite 
spoilt? Of course their are exceptins. I do not 
write of these, but of what is the p’ule, and in 
my own experience the rule used to be pretty 
general. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Up-country Cemeteries : One Secret of their Fre- 
quently Neglected Appearance. 
The mortal remains of those Europeans who die 
in the country are on the same day, or, at any rate, 
generally within twenty-four hours of their death, 
consigned to their last resting-place. About towuis, 
where cemeteries are large and spacious, funeral ar- 
rangements are easily carried out, but up-country it is 
different. The bulk of Europeans whose death takes 
place in the Island are generally during their last illness, 
unless indeed it be very severe and sudden, convened 
into the towns for the sake of greater comfort and 
advice from the best medical authorities. Thus deaths 
are comparatively few in the jungle, but they do take 
place, and. to meet this emergency, a piece of ground 
around every up-country chapel is consecrated or set 
apart as a burial place. If these burying-gronnds are 
not well and regularly kept in good order, rank grasses 
and jungle underw'ood encroach upon them, over- 
running the graves and spreading up to the very door 
of the church. One of the more immediately adjacent 
residents generally takes in charge to keep the church- 
