GdiNG HOME. 
give our youngsters a chance, and see how they get 
bn without us.’° So Messrs. Easy and Perean went 
away, and were no more heard of, until after a time 
long letters turned up every mail, grumbling about 
excessive expenditure, expenses were frightful, far more 
than were ever spent during their residence, and that 
they must come out again and retrench;, and put a 
stop to this lavish waste of money. However they 
did not, they had probably looked at the other side 
of the questioii, which was larger brops. Estates pro- 
mising a longer established and more remunerative in- 
vestment, an investment which could bear an invests 
Ration beyond that mysterious epoch in coffee plantings 
called “next year.” Or very probably, in their calm 
moments of reflection in the old country, they had 
privately come to the conclusion, that they could not^ 
or would not manage their own estate, because who- 
ever they met with engaged in conversation about 
feoffee, Messrs. Smith and Meek were never mention ed^ 
it was all what they had done. But they never said 
a word about what they had not done, or done Wrong 
or if they did it was Messrs. Smith and Meek that 
did it. Most proprietors were the same ; we know 
brie exception, he is 
P. Do Millie, 
CHAPTEB XXVII. 
Showing how CeVlon Coffee Estate Ways anh 
Manners Unfit a Man for Law-protected 
England and for Mixing in Polite Society. 
“ Gone home.” Often have we received this reply 
lo an inquiry as to the whereabouts or some old friends 
whom we had neither seen nor heard of for a long 
time. “ Gone home,” which means left the Island, 
and gone to the land of his nativity, after an absence 
bf twenty or thirty years, the result of Which is by rib 
means what the words imply. Often quite the con- 
trary, for it may be truly said he has gone to meet, 
if indeed there are any to meet, the friends with 
snow-white hair “ whose locks were raven when they 
parted.” Gone to what appears for a time a harsh 
cold ungenial climate, gone to assume an entirely new 
riiode of life, probably uncongenial, new habits and 
customs, apparently stiff, formal, unnatural, and not 
at all in accordance with his idea of comfort and 
sociability, gone to be represented and excused amongst 
his friends as a peculiar fellow, a sort of odditjq “ one 
who you know has lived all his life amongst black 
people, who is ignorant of our customSj blit not such 
