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ther. Their method of fastening up at night is done 
at once by means of the last plank, inserted where 
the nitch in the wood is. All they have to do, is to 
fasten this plank inside, by means of a staple and 
hasp, and they have a solid wooden wall just as secure 
as bricks and mortar, only not so private, because the 
planks did not fit close, and in the olden times we 
used to amuse ourselves in the evenings by looking 
through the chinks of the planks, to see what the 
inmates were doing, but we saw little to reward our 
silly curiosity: a brass lamp burning on the floor, and 
a few heaps lying about, which were sleepers, lying 
stretched out at full length, all wrapped up or rather 
swathed, head and all, in a cloth, looking just as if 
the room was filled with dead bodies ; and proba- 
bly some sedate man who had been sleeping all 
day, and did not feel inclined for any more, was sitting 
cross legged amongst the sleepers, chanting some song, 
or making calculations of the day’s profits on a tali-pot 
leaf. Kandy I We may yet see you again,, but never more 
as we saw you “ thirty years ago.” Times have changed 
and “we have changed with them.’” As water spilt on 
the ground cannot be gathered up again, so do old by- 
gone times never return. But we will never forget 
“ the going to Kandy for money,” “ the tambies,” 
‘‘the jewel and the stone merchants,” the periodical 
meeting of friends who only met when they went to 
Kandy ; for many were the days “of good and bad, 
or merry and sad,” that now while writing these lines 
fise up like ghosts in the memory of 
P. D. MILLIE. 
CHAPTER XXXVIIL 
JUNGLE TAILORS, SERVANTS AND COURTS. 
Once upon a time, a man stepped timidly into our 
front verandah, and stood, partially concealed, behind 
one of the posts ; he £xed his eyes upon us. There he 
stood and said nothing ; but from the determined way 
in which he stared, or rather glared, there could be no 
manner of doubt as to his knowing us again. He was 
dressed in rather a “ loud” style; a long jacket without 
collar, made of coarse yellow silk, reached down well 
over the body ; a pair of trousers clothed his limbs, 
made of light cotton, coloured with long broad 
stripes of yellow running lengthways. They were drawn 
in tight round the waist by a coarse silk string 
which hung down in front, where it was tied in 
beautiful ornamental knots and tassels. From the 
waist downwards, to a little below the knee, they were 
