A NEW EXPERIENCE. 
letters and papers spread open out on a file, so he 
had merely to turn over the leaves as he would those 
of a book, in order to read them all easily and with 
despatch. But he was not unobserved : the servant had 
perhaps a hint from his master : at all events he was. 
busy with a long broom sweeping the lobby and ver- 
andah, a very usual circumstance with him, on a Sunday 
morning, when master was absent. He was so intent 
on sweeping that none would ever suspect he was 
watching, but he was, and saw everything that was 
going on. The servant stops his sweeping and stands 
looking in behind the door, which opened considerably 
from its frame on the wide-set hinges. Now a good 
Tamil servant is always particularly zealous in his 
master’s cause and for his interest during his absence ^ 
so he makes a great noise and bustle in the passage, 
and by the time Mr. Jimson has shut and locked the 
drawers he steps into the room and states his master 
had sent him a cooly express with instructions to find 
and forward his keys which had been left lying about 
somewhere, and would he assist him in looking for 
them. So our visitor commenced to rummage ail over 
the room, and strange to say could find no bunch of 
key^s! “Your master must be mistaken,” says he. 
Replies the servant very sharply: ‘‘ Master forget very 
soon After master read all the papers in the top 
drawer, you shut and lay the keys below tins news- 
paper,” at the same time stepping up to a small round 
table, removing a paper, and taking up the keys. He 
says never another word, but leaves the room with 
the keys. The visitor thinks it was time he 
was leaving also ! So he left and never said be 
was gone, never even said: “Don’t cook any break- 
fast.” He did not go back to that bungalow again. 
Mr. Jimmn’s employer had occasion to leave the 
island for a few months, so it was arranged that he 
was to live in his bungalow during the period of his 
absence, and see that everything was all right. The 
keys of the store-rooms and cellars were deposited 
with him, on the understanding, that, if any of his 
employer’s friends “came the way,” they were to 
receive all hospitable reception, and be entertained 
in the usual way. When this circumTance became 
known, Mr. Jimson suddenly found he was becoming 
a very popular fellow. He had a great number of 
visitors, and, from entertaining his employer’s friends, 
he commenced to entertain his own, at the expense 
of his employer ; in fact all the stores, solid and 
liquid, began to go very fast. The keys would be 
left in the doors or lying about, and the servants, 
thinking they had just as good a right to help them- 
selves and entertain their friends as the sinna 
