KANDY IN EARLY PLANTING DAYS. 
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account for this sudden movement, for our host’ 
carriage drove up to^ the door. As he entered the 
verandahy he said cheerily, What, commenced already 
to make purchases? Well, well, you won’t get any thing 
in the jungle, you know. ” We stated we had made 
no purchases, but that these articles, for which we had 
no use at all, having got a very large and varied 
outfit all safe in our trunks, had been forced upon 
us and left there without our consent. Our host 
smiled : “ I see, I quite understand^ ” and he calls out 
Boy r’ On a response being made, *‘Boy,” says he, 
“haven’t I told you that visitors here are not to|be 
annoyed by those pests ? why don’t you look out and 
keep them away? ” But the “ boy” did not tell he 
was promised a “ fine handkerchief very cheap, ” 
perhaps for nothing, if Mr; Griffin made, or was 
made to make, extensive purchases. The “ boy ” 
might have been called and asked if the “ very fine 
handkerchiefs ” were “ very cheap,” and he would, un- 
der the circumstances, of course say that they were. 
He said nothing about all this. He merely said, “Did 
not see : busy getting tiffin ready, ” “You have not 
bought those things and you don’t want them ?” says 
our host. We reply “Certainly not | ” upon which he 
shouts out, “ You outside, take away your rubbish 
sharp, ” but as they approached rather slowly he 
caught hold of the very fine silk handkerchiefs, and 
the socks, also all the other articles, which he pro- 
nounced a lot of rubbish, and pitched them out into 
the verandah drain, where they were picked up by 
their owners, carried out to the roadside, and care- 
fully dusted and folded up, after which they were 
replaced in the tin boxes, without the owners being 
in the least annoyed. They then strapped their boxes 
and went away, but during the whole of the day 
several coolies were stretched out under the trees 
on the roadside, evidently on the watch, in order to 
run and report whenever the big master went out 
or in case the young master himself might come out. 
Our host now looks at the jewellery and says the 
precious stones are stained glass; the gold is just 
pinchbeck ; and really there ought to be some law 
against this sort of thing — representing articles for 
sale to be what they are not, and imposing upon the 
ignorant. “ Her©, you fellows, take away your rubbish,’^ 
They closed the jewel boxes and prepared to depart, 
when one, bolder than the rest, declared a ring, 
the most valuable one he had, was missing from the 
stock, and, to prove it, he pointed out a vacant space 
in the box, where the ring was supposed to have 
been. He did not mean to say the young master 
had taken it, but it must have been lost while he was 
