COOLY CEITICISM. 
coolies, they respect you ; every one respecfs a mau 
who understands his business, and goes at itwith a will. 
Suppose your pulper or machinery goes wrong, get a 
man to set or put it to rights, cannot you tell almost 
ar. the first glance, whether he can or will do it, or 
not ? The practical way in which he takes off his 
coat, tucks up his sleeves, gives a few sharp shrewd 
glances at the faulty machine, tells at once he is 
master of his business. You feel confidence in him, 
you know he will set your machine, and you don’t 
trouble him. On the contrary, there is a something 
almost indescribable, that you can at once stamp the 
man who does not and cannot set your pulper, a. 
something that tells you, the moment he takes the 
wrench or screw hammer in his hand that he will 
nob do it, and you are right. All of our readers must 
have noticed, when there was anything difficult to be 
done and anybody could do it, when the job devolved 
upon the master, as the last and only resource, and 
he undertook to do it, how he was watched by the 
coolies, every motion and action. If he was successful, 
what bright happy faces they put on, talking amongst 
theselves. “ Our master did it.” “ Our master can do it.” 
*• Our master can do anything.” And how cheerful they 
go away under the confirmed opinion “Our master can 
do everything,” and what an additional power it gives 
him in possessing their confidence. But if the master 
should be baffled, or puzzled, the cooly is too polite 
to pass a rude or discourteous expression or opinion. 
But is n’t he like “Jack’s parrot,” who, if he did not 
or could not speak, just thought the more ? They will 
think their own thoughts, and speak them too, 
amongst themselves, but of course you bear nothing 
of them, all the time wondering how it is y^u cannot 
command the same respect and attention that some 
of your neighbours do. The reason is, you don’t un- 
derstand how to do your work. 
Judge of Mr. Perean’s astonishment, when one day 
Easy called and said, it was all settled, he was going 
home ; he had been going into his accounts, and found 
his living on his estate cost him over and over again 
more than it would in England, while he had neither 
occupation nor amusement : in fact the money was just 
wasted ; he would go home for a couple of years, and 
then come back again to see how matters hnd gone 
in his absence. He would leave Smith in full charge, 
subject to the Colombo agency, who would have his 
power of attorney, in case, and only in case, any- 
thing went wrong. Judge also of Mr. Easy’s asron- 
ishment when Mr. Perean clapped him on the shoulder, 
“Hurrah, old boy, that ’s right, and I will go with 
you, for I am tired of this sort of thing too ; we wiil 
