MR. EASY. 
down on the couch, burst out into a tirade of abuse 
against the “boy,” so that the boy warns all and 
sundry not to approach the bangiiow, for “Master 
is angry.” We well remember tue day, not thirty 
years ago, when our iieighboarsson sidered us “daft,” 
after a hard day’s work, toiling about that dreadful 
hill. “What was he doing? Only look.” And 
three or four glassses would pop in position from 
the verandah of the bungalow opposite. “ Only 
fancy ! Why he is galloping his horse round the 
beat or drive in front of the bungalow. Did you 
ever?” Just so, the best rest is not rest, but a 
change of occupation, and after a few turns round 
the “drive” and a cold bath we felt fresher than if 
we had rested on the couch for an hour. 
When you feel an:>ry, out of temper, dirty, and 
irritable, take a ten miuntes’ gallop, and a cold bath 
under the spout, and take my word for it, you will 
siy that is not bad advice from our old friend 
P. D, Millik. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
Ay “ Easy ” Proprietou, and the Hard Work hb 
Gave his Superintendent. 
Mr. Easy was a planting proprietor of a very dif' 
ferent stamp from Mr. Pere in : his bungalow was just 
a shed of a place, consisting of a “but and a ben,” 
not even a bed in it, for he slept in a hammock, and 
his visitors, when ho had any, which was but seldom, 
on a couch. This shed, however, vvas a perfect model 
of cleanliness and neatness, everything in its proper 
place, and everything had a proper place, which any 
one with an eye to order could at a glance at once 
perceive. Any junior assistant of the present day 
would have scouted the very idea of living in such a 
bungalow. He would refuse to engage with such a 
“ stingy old screw ” of a pi-opriefor w^ho would not 
provide better house accommodation for the very superior 
class and position of young gentlemen who felt in- 
clined to devote their time and attention, for a brief 
and limited period, to the coffee enterprise, and the 
benefits that the “stingy old screw” derived from 
their impoi tant services were not for a inomeot to be 
put in the scale against the very small amount of 
benefit they received, if indeed they received any at 
all, which was doubtful. 
However Mr. Easy intended to build a better bun- 
galow after his estate was fairly established, and, hav- 
ing this end in view, he amused himself in the cool 
of the mornings and evenings in laying out shrub- 
