THE VISIT OF THE WASHEKMAN, 
not nearly enough, to cover the value of the things : 
a flannel shirt, a coat, and jacket, all nearly new. 
Why, the shirt itself is worth more than the money. 
Go away, and make inquiries, and come back in a 
day or two, and you juft look out, if I see 
any one else wearing these clothes, I will put you in 
jail, I will. ” Tears rolled down the cheeks of the 
washerman, when he heard this stern resolve, and he 
said, he never would believe such a good kind master 
Avouid ever do this, after all the hard work he had under- 
gone, in making his clothes so clean and starching 
them so nicely ; there was no other gentleman in all 
the district, for whom he took so much trouble. He 
Avould start to-morrow morning, and go round all the 
estates, until he found the clothes, but he required 
something for expenses : he must have just ‘'two rupees. 
Master gets up, opens his cash-box, tossing him the 
money, Avhich tinkles down on the A^erandah, sa,yiiig, 
“ Take that, you pest, and be off, without any more 
botheration. ” A cheerful smile gleamed OA’-er the 
washerman’s face, as he stooped down, and picked up 
the money, hastily retiring into the kitchen, Avhere 
such a noise of talking and laughing immediately en- 
sued, that master had to get up, and bawl out in a 
very threatening manner, in order to keep order and 
qiiietness. Upon hearing this, the v/asherman shouldered 
his bundle, and departed ; the kitchen cooly shouldered 
his axe, and went out to cut firewood ; the boy closed 
the kitchen door, enveloped himself in the table- 
cloth, lay down on the floor, and fell fast asleep. Ail 
was still, and master made great progress with his 
Avtriting. About an hour after the departure of the 
Avasherman, a shadow darkened the office room, the 
door of which stood open on an entry from the back 
verandah, as if some one was standing there, behind, 
but master did not look up. Then a short cough AA^as 
occasionlay heard, the only notice taken of which 
was a more vigorous application of the pen, and deeper 
dives into the ready-recknor, just upon the very 
reasonable preusmption that, the coughs ceing merely 
preliminariC notices of vdolent outbursts of talk, like 
the rustling of leaves upon the trees, previous to the 
full burst of the hurricane, so, it was quite the same 
in the end, whether or not you took notice or nn. 
coughs, or the rustling of the leaves, for nrtice of the 
notice would never prevent or modify in any respect 
the violent outburst of talk proceeding from that 
vthroat and mouth in the verandah, which was just 
as positively certain as that notice or no notice of the 
rustling leaves could have any effect in checking the 
full force of the first burst of the south-west monsoon, 
