FURTHER EXPERIENCES OF MR, FRESH. 
cooly to tell the horsekeeper “ master’s orders ; ” the 
cooly would throw down his axe, with which he 
was busy hacking away at a large stump, in order to 
procure firewood, fasten his cloth, adjust the sleeves 
of his dirty jacket, if he had one, and make a rush 
towards the stables, from which he would speedily 
return, stating no horsekeeper was there. He would 
then be told to run out to the grass field, for he would 
doubtless be there, cutting grass ; seeing the case 
was urgent, he would actually run. Arrived at the 
spot, the air would resound with shouts of “ Mu tto — 
yah-hey — Mutto — Doree kupradu — surika wa,” &c. ; but 
to all of these frantic exclamations there was no reply. 
He returns, and tells the “boy” he is not to be 
found, and at the same time master begins to shout 
out, “Boy, will you attend to my orders? Send 
round that horse.” The boy reports the state of matters, 
and says he sent to the lines to see if he is there. The 
lines are a good way of, and after the lapse of a 
considerable time, the kitchen cooly arrives in a breath- 
less state, closely followed by “mutto” in the same 
condition ; and if that kitchen cooly had told the truth, 
which he did not and would not, he could have said, 
he had found mutto in Carpiah’s room, to which he 
had resorted of course only to have a chew of betel, 
of which very necessary article he had run short. But 
as the heads of this tale are a brief statement of 
planting life in the days of old, Mr, Fresh did no- 
thing of the sort. Few estates then allowed horse or 
horsekeep, and fewer superintendents were able to 
afford either the purchase of the former or cost of 
the latter. Even supposing they could, what use would 
it have been ? Allowing that the state of the road, 
which led to the estate, was possible fora horse, which 
was the exception from the general rule, a horse would 
have been of no use whatever on the estate. The roads 
there were merely cooly tracks ; when they met any 
obstacle in the shape of a rock or large stone, the road 
took a sudden descent or ascent down or up a precipice, 
in order to circumvent the obstraction ; huge burnt 
and blackened “doon” tree logs lay right across the 
paths, which were surmounted in a manner which 
might be suitable for a monkey, and the way a passage 
was made over them was this. If the tree was un- 
usually large, sticks fastened by jungle rope would 
be fastened up each side, forming a rude ladder, the 
rounded form at the top, where the ladders met, was 
cut away level with an adze; this prevented on© 
from slipping on a wet day in shifting from one 
ladder to the other, and also answered the purpose of 
a short resting space after the arduous climb up, as 
also to compose the nervous system before undertaking 
