WHAT BECAME OP A YOUNG PLANTER’S OUTFIT. 
wearing apparel as with a large stock of anything else, the 
Stock gradually disappears in a very mysterious way ; 
the o.vner is dressing in a hurry going off on some 
expedition, a button is discovered as being off one of the 
wristbands. What is the use of bothering sewing on a 
button on a half- worn-out shirt. There are plenty of 
good new ones in the box, so that shirt is tossed 
aside, and another put on. A small rent is on the sleeve 
of a coat, or on a pair of trousers ; a minute or two with 
a needle and thread would make it all right, but the 
horse is coming round from the stables, may be even 
standing waiting at the door, and the easiest plan is to 
toss the piece of dress into a corner, open the box, 
and take out new ones. The boy gets hold of the 
clothes, and although he had no needles, and, even if 
he had, could not sew when master asked him, neverthe- 
less he seems to possess a wonderful ability in tailoring 
when it is to answer his own private purposes. The 
clothes come home from the washing and of course 
several buttons have been smashed off., The washerman 
would never have considered his work complete without 
this little speciality ; indeed if one watched him at his 
work standing in the middle of a stream smashing and 
dashing the clothes on a large round smooth stone, 
one would be very apt to suppose that the especial 
object or aim in his work was to knock off the buttons, 
and he was generally very successful, much more so 
than in cleming the clothes ; or if not altogether so, the 
partial success was as bad or worse than if he had 
been completely so, for s nail pieces of buttons, halves 
or quarters, would be hanging on by the original 
sewing, deluding the owner that they would do just in 
the meantime, but although carefully put into the button 
hole, they never would stick there, so the shirt was 
thrown aside, left to the tender consideration and 
care of the boy, and a new one taken out of the 
box, the buttons upon which were all right. The result 
of all this is that the young man who arrives in 
Ceylon with a very large outfit after a year or two 
finds himself hard up for clothes, and cannot under- 
stand where they have all gone to, or what has 
become of them. The writer has very often been 
consulted as to a proper outfit by young men pro- 
ceeding to the coffee estates, and it has always been 
the case that they took too much. It must be re- 
membered that both in Ceylon and all our other colo- 
nies circumstances have very much changed from what 
they were thirty years ago. It must be a very remote 
portion of the globe now where you cannot procure 
what is wanted for money, and— what is even better — • 
procured as wanted. True, you will probably pay more 
for them, not get them of such good quality or sa 
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