COOLY GAUDEN^S. 
all the answer. We had been done. Never mind, 
it will be recovered some time : put it down in the 
advance-book. 
We used always to encourage coolies in cultivating 
small gardens about the lines. Sotue superintendents do 
not allow them, on the plea that they are so unsightly, 
and also nurseries for weeds, which in many cases is 
quite the case, because the cooly has no idea of order 
or neatness. Any little waste portion of ground would 
be ienced in, no matter how. Upright sticks of all 
lengths and sizes, outside planks, even brushwood, 
would be heaped up around ; of course, these fences 
were in general nurseries for weeds, in which they came 
to seed, tall and rank, and from which they cast their 
seeds amongst the coffee. Then it was all very well 
80 long as they cultivated these saiall patches of 
ground, but from various causes they would some- 
times be temporarily abandoned : the owner might have 
taken a lazy fit : he might have left the estate 
sick, or from some other causes ceased attending 
to his small patch of ground, the weeds would 
spring up into a perfect nursery — in which case 
we very often (of course, after due warning of what 
would be the result, if the punctual weeding of the gar- 
dens was not attended to) pull up the fences and burn up 
all the weeds, and issue an edict against any more 
gardens, but after a while some industrious fellow 
would petition that he might be allowed to cultivate a 
small garden. We would be firm at first and say no, but 
our friend would persevere. “He was quite a differ- 
ent man from any one else, and would never allow a 
weed to be seen,’’ and so we would evetitually give 
consent after a short time, merely to have a repetition 
of the old story. These small gardens sometimes led to 
a good deal of quarrelling amongst themselves in 
respect to paltry thefts, one stealing vegetales from 
the other. This was of course referred to master, who 
might be put to his wits’ end to decide, as to who 
stole a pumpkin, which after all perhaps was not 
stolen at all, but had been secretly cut by the proper 
owner during the nighty made up into curry and 
eaten, and a charge made to master next day against 
his enemy, who he declared had stolen it. “And 
was it not perfectly true, for here were witnesses 
who had, along with himself, seen the skins of the 
vegetable lying behind the door,” which skins had 
been secretly placed there by his accused himself 
early in the morning before any one was up. We 
have some times been very much annoyed at their 
pumpkin plants. This is a quick-growing creeper or 
runner with large leaves, which soon seeks out and 
verruns everything in its way j it wffl run up the 
