FURTHER EXPERIENCES OF HR. STALE, 
hardly safe to walk out after nightfall, would n’t he put his 
hands to his mouth, and cry oud, “ “Hwra-i sam V* 
Asiatic immorality indeed ! who was ever molested or as- 
tfauited in the streets of any town in Ceylon in this 
manner ? Not a female to be seen out after nightfall, 
unless under escort of a man. Again, just see what oc- 
casionally “ crops up” in the newspapers, in divorce cases, 
amongst the upper classes (or castes). Do not these in- 
stances lead one to suspect that a great number of similar 
ones may never “crop up” at all, or be purposely con- 
cealed, to avoid public scandal ? 
It is a well-known fact, that a high and refined state 
of civilization, when it is not supported by sincere moral 
and religious principles, is invariably accompanied by a 
high and refined state of vice ; that as civilization and 
virtue increase, so also does vice, refined vice, all the 
more subtile and dangerous as it assumes the cloak of 
virtue, and walks, it may be, without being recognised 
along with it, whereas vice, in its natural undisguised 
state, has a hideous aspect, is seen at once, and pointee 
at, with the finger of disgust and scorn, by all respectabln 
people, who, it may be, and of course only some of them 
practise genteel and refined vice privately, never eved 
mention the subject, unless the subject be “ Asiatic im- 
morality”! “ Tiiere you go on,” says the reader, “the 
chimney is fairly on fire now I” Chimney ! We had tor- 
gotten all about it! However Mr. Stale has surely by 
this time got ready to commence, and so, we will com- 
mence or resume the subject in next chapter, and the we, 
of course, means 
P. D. Millie. 
CHAPTER XLIIL 
A. NOVEL MODE OP CHIMNEY BUILDING — A contretemps : the 
SMOKE IN THE WRONG PLACE — THE “ BOY ” ACTS AS A 
CONSOLER, BUT ADDS FUEL TO THE FLAME OP DISAPPOINT- 
MENT— MR. STALE IN A BAD HUMOUR— ASTONISHMENT 
OF THE “ BOY ” AT HIS MASTER'S PERSPICACITY — EXTEN*" 
SITE THIEVING IN THE KITCHEN— THE “BOY” RECEIVES 
notice to quit— a STRANGE USE FOR A MOUSTACHE— 
“ NALAKU VA ” — “ SECOND THOUGBTS ABE ALWAYS BEST” 
— r/^OOLIES' COMPLAINTS— ILLUSTRATIONS Op PROMPTITUDE 
AND DECISION AND OBSTINACY. 
A blank partition wall crossed the bungalow right 
opposite the front door, and against this, right under 
the ridge-pole, it was determined that the chimney 
should be built. A hole was dug in the mud floor, 
into which all sorts of stones, as large as could be 
found, were deposited as a foundation ; when these 
r^ched the level of the floor a plaster of mud a few 
inches thick wa'=? smoothed over the top. Mr. Stale 
then got as straight a piece of stick as he could find, 
and a worn out old mamotie, minus the handle, ot 
