NO MORE CUREYl 
lamps would sway, totter, and smash, but as a matter of 
course right into the currj dish, and all was dark. A 
light having been thrown over ‘ subject, it was found 
the burners were not broken, but that the curry was 
destroyed with being all mixed up with coconut oil. 
Never mind, it might have been worse, it might have 
been the rice. We can dine upon rice, without curry, 
but not upon curry without rice. We say ‘^Boy; 
more curry,” but he says there is none. Having some 
doubts on this subject, a sudden inroad is made into 
the kitchen, and we see in a corner a black earthen 
chatty like a large saucepan covered by another inverted 
chatty or dish. The upper one is removed and reveals 
to the admiring gaze a very large quantity of very fine 
curry, much finer than that which was destroyed by 
the lamp burner. The boy does not seem put out in 
any way ; he merely says he did not know there was 
any, it must have been the kitchen cooly’s dinner. We 
reply, if that is the case, he must punish the kitchen 
cooly, as he has often been told not to cook in the 
kitchen. W^here is that dog ? “ Come along old Growler. 
Here’s some dinner for you,” and the curry, the boy’s 
dinner, is poured over the remainder of the rice and 
speedily eaten by the dog, and we solemnly tell that 
boy that, if he had told the truth, we would have eaten 
as little curry as possible, and the dog should have got 
none. So he has just lost his own dinner by telling a 
lie. But the lesson is quite lost, lying just comes as 
natural to boys as truth to the master. 
In a tropical climate, one requires at times a stimu- 
lant. It is now generally pronounced by medical men, 
to be an old-fashioned error, that wine, beer, and 
spirits, are necessary to preserve the health of Europeans 
in the tropics. As a rule quite the contrary opinion is 
now held, and, so far from being necessary, they are 
not only unnecessary but in many cases positively 
hurtful, especially the habit of taking a glass of sherry 
before dinner, to give one an appetite. Now curry 
possesses the qualities of a harmless stimulaut, it stimu- 
lates the stomach, and does not, as liquors do, injuri- 
ously affect the nervous system and the brain. If 
you come in done up with a hard day’s work, and feel 
indifferent about dinner, don’t think you can eat. any- 
thing, just try a good hot dish of curry and rice, and you 
will manage to stow away a good lot of it, even without 
the aid of sherry and bitters, in fact after the first few 
spoonfuls tliat glass of sherry will be quite tasteless, and 
almost scald your mouth. Having enlarged to such an 
extent upon curry, we have no room left for even a few 
brief remarks upon rice which were intended to have been 
made, having far exceeded the usual limits of the space 
