what became of a young PLANTEE’S OUTFIT:: 
was one rope and a stick, and “ Master, just see kow 
fast and cheap he would do it. ” Besides three coolies 
were quite enough, one at each end of the rope 
and one to hold the stick and put in the pegs, and 
as for carrying the pegs, any boy or woman would 
do, and so the lining of the new clearing was fairly 
commenced. All that was done was to keep the pegs 
straight up and down the line. Such an idea as having 
them straight also crossways never entered their 
heads. After a considerable block of land was put^^ 
out in pegs, the Periya Durai came over and had an 
inspection, “Fresh*’ says he, you are all wrong | all these 
pegs will have to be pulled up, and the work done 
over again with greater correctness. What have you • 
been thinking about ? Just look up that line.” So Mr. 
Fresh’s eye followed those of the superior and sure * 
enough up the hill face, all glittering in the rising 
sun, stood the white pegs representing a forked ap- 
pearance, straight for a little distance, then suddenly 
running off at right angles, first to one side and then 
to the other. He was confounded, and could not un- 
derstand the cause until it was explained, that his 
shifting the rope had not been continued on the same 
line. He had moved the rope and taken its continuation 
from the last peg in the line^ without looking to see 
if the new line of rope laid down was a continua- 
tion of. the row of pegs put in. But his superior 
told him, as the men must commence holing 
next day, there was no time to do the work over- 
again, “ So just run your rope up the proper line, 
puli up the pegs, and make them fit in as well as 
you can;” which was done, and the next day men 
were put on to hole. But it was found the lines 
of pegs put down were not nearly sufficient, so three 
or four men set to work on one line at short dis- 
tances apart. ^^When the day’s work' was done, an#] 
previous to dismissing the coolies, Mr. Fresh ex- 
amined the holes, to see if they were all right in 
breadth, depth, and circumference ; of course, he found 
that they were all wrong, and the defaulter could 
not be ascertained ; every one denied being the au- 
thor of the insufficient hole,, and said ik was. his 
comrade; the latter, in his turn, fired up and declared 
he had never cut that hole, and put the blame on 
somebody else, So Mr. Fresh called out for the 
kangani, in order to settle the dispute. After a 
great deal of calling and bawling, that functionary 
stepped out from the recess of a. huge tree stump, 
where he had spent the best part of the day, snug 
and warm, on its leeward side. He shook his long 
stick, said he knew very well who w^as the culprit, 
pounced upon a boy, evidently not very robust, abusedl 
