PULPING IN THE FIELD. 
from such a very high and irnpcrfcant au- 
thority as the periya durai. - Mr. Perean himself 
accompanied the coolies to the picking place, set them 
in line, and commenced to explain the use ol the 
basket. With their fingers and thumb they picked 
one ripe coffee berry, then moved the hand to the 
basket, gave the finger a squeeze, out popped the 
parchment coffee into the basket, leaving the pulp 
between the finger, which was then dropped, thus 
also saving all trouble and expense in manuring from 
the pulpp-it, for was not this an application of 
manure, free from all costs and charges? Now w© 
all very veil know the eccentric darts and flights 
made by a coffee bean, when suddenly squeezed out 
ef the puli), and so it happened that, far oftener 
than otherwise, the parchment coffee did not pop 
into the basket at all but popped away out amongst 
the weeds, and was lost, leaving only the useless 
pulp between the finger and thumb. And what a 
pity it was our intelligent proprietor did not take in 
a moral lesson, which was so peculiarly adapted to 
his own case, and which was so plainly shewn forth 
in the behaviour of the useless pulp and good parch- 
ment coffee. Many a one besides him has gone to 
a good deal of trouble and expense in order to get 
their manure applied for nothing, at the expense of 
losing ail their parchment coffee. Our readers will 
no doubt understand the point of this plain reason- 
ing. Mr. Perean was not to be beaten so easily : 
he saw what was wanted. A tailor was sent for, 
who covered the mouths of the baskets with canvas 
cloth, oiie^ half sewed on, the other half buttoned 
over the rim, so that, when it got full, it had merely 
ta be unbuttoned and emptied ; a slit was made, v/ith 
a knife, in the cloth, and into it the picker was to 
place his hand, squeeze his fingers, draw it back 
again with the pulp between them, leaving the bean 
safe in the basket. What a capital plan 1 No need 
of watching the pickers now. Certainly 41 good deal 
more came into the store, but, strange to say, it had 
passed through a very close-set pulper, in fact it was 
cut and bruised fully fifty per cent, and Mr. Meek 
received instructions strictly to watch the pickers, and 
find out what was wrong. This was .soon done. The 
pickers, in utter ignorance that they were doing any- 
thing wrong, made no attempt at concealment ; they 
picked a few handfuls of cherry coffee, then sat down 
on their hind I'^gs, having previously got hold of a flat 
stone and a round one ; between these stones they 
pulped the coffee just exactly in the same way as 
they wmuld have ground up curry stuff’s, and then 
put the brui.sed coffee into the basket. Our reader 
