WHAT BECAME OF A YOUNG PLANTER’S OUTFIT. 
able or not; and bo it was definitely settled, at a general 
conference in the chief kangani’s room, that they must all 
make presents to master, who thus, in very shame, 
could not do less than return to them a much more 
handsome present than he had received. One after- 
noon a kangani stepped into the verandah ; under 
his arm was carried a fine cock. Now, poultry was 
one of Mi\ Fresh’s weak points, w^hieh very proba- 
bly the man knew, as he had frequently been mak- 
ing inquiry as to where he could purchase some fowlso 
As a matter of course his eye caught the fowd under 
the man’s arm, and from the glance of that eye the 
knowing kangani knew at once master was caught 
also. “What a very fine bird,” says Mr, Fresh ; ‘‘Yes/’ says 
the kangani, as he unties his legs and sets him down 
on the verandah, “ Quite tame too, just a pet.” The cock 
liapped his wings, shook out his beautiful feathers, 
and arched his tail, until master’s attention became 
so rivetted that the kangani at once perceived he was 
fixed. He then said, “ I knew master like very much,, 
master please take and keep. My wife’s pet fowl; she will 
be very angry, and make plenty row with me. No 
matter, master must get the fowl.” Mr, Fresh was profuse 
in his thanks, and would the kangani take three rupees,. 
to buy a new dress for his wife, and console her for 
the loss of the bird. But it was promptly refused ; he 
did not sell the bird, it was a present, “ All right, ” says 
Mr. Fresh, and went into the bungalow to finish np 
some accounts. On coming out nearly an hour after- 
wards, to his great surprise, the kangani was standing 
just in the same spot — bad never gone — so was asked 
to state what he -vyanted. After great hesitation, after 
a good deal of pressing, he replied “ A coat.” Now, not- 
withstanding all the resolutions master had arrived 
at, he felt, under the peculiar circumstances of the 
case, that he must give this man a coat ; he had taken 
his fowl, about which the man said his wife was very 
angry, indeed the subject might interfere with the do^ 
mestic felicity of the couple, and the wife might even 
run away and the whole blame might rest on him. 
So he opened a box which stood in the verandah, the 
result of which vlas, the kangani took his departure, 
dressed in a new tweed woollen shooting coat, which 
bad never been worn, the original cost of which was 
£3 ; and it thus happened Mr. Fresh got the present 
of a beautiful cock, worth six or eight shillings, and 
gave a present of a bran new coat, eight times the 
value of the bird ! ! Was not this successful schemer 
a grand man, strutting about dressed in a fine new 
English-made coat, and didn’t he rise immensely in 
the estimation of all the women in the lines ! The 
men were all extremely envious and jealous, and many 
