FURTHER EXPFRIENCUS OP MR, STALE^ 
The shades of evening are again drawing on, as we 
tJome out of that .Jungle, into the well-known clearing 
and, although a wearisome and dreary day has been 
spent in it, we have otir reward in knowing that it 
has been usefully spent for the future benefit of others 
for we know, feel perfectly certain, that not even 
Mr. Green himself could by any possibility lose his 
way now, in going through that fdrest, and at the 
bungalow the boy is Shouted for, and told to 
bring dinner, to which he replies, “hlo dinner got. How 
was I to know that master was coming ? ” Why, did 
not the Obstinate Durai tell you ? He took a mes- 
sage for you. ” He says, “ Ho master ever call here at 
all, either Obstinate or Pliable.” We feel very 
much irritated at having been served such a mean 
trick, but, upon consideration, begin to suspect some- 
thing, and tell the boy to make plenty rice and 
curry, in case Mr. Obstinate should turn up by and 
bye, and, in the meantime, turn the water on to the 
spout, and get coffee. launder gone ^ no, gone 
under, either of the expressions will convey the correct 
explanation, the coffee is drunk, when we fancy a 
faint coo-hoo is heard proceeding from the far up 
clearing. It could not be our companion, for he most 
certainly could never come out at that far end, some 
one else lost in the jungle; dear me, who can it be ? 
The coo-hoo is responded to, and mutually exchanged 
for some time, until, at last, a weary man is seen slowly 
toiling up to the bungalow, in woful plight. Can it 
be. Yes, it is our friend, who was to have been home 
three or four hours before us, and order dinner I “ Why, 
old chap,^’ we exclaim, ‘^whatever has come over you ? 
Instead of you ordering my dinner, I bavm kept some 
of mine for you : a case of ‘ the hare and tortoise,’ 
is n’t it? I thought yon could not be lost in that jungle.” 
Lost !” says be, gasping for breath, nearly choking, 
in trying to laugh, ‘Hhe idea of me being lost! The 
fact is, knowing that I would be home long before 
you, I just thought to go out of my way a bit, and 
have a look what sort of jungle it was, as lots of people 
are always asking me about land, and where any good 
pieces are to be had, so just went out of ray way to 
examine, being on the spot.” On being reminded, that he 
had left us on the plea of having so much to do at home, 
and no time to put off &c., he coolly remarked, so he 
had, but upon second thoughts, which you know some con- 
sider, perhaps erroneously, to be best, for although the 
principle of a first thought, the first fresh and keen 
perception of the brain, no doubt, is often right, yet 
it would be rash to act upon it, before being properly 
considered and improved by the second thought, so 
that second thoughts would be utterly useless, without 
