HAPPINESS AND THE PUESUIT OP IT. 
«an be bringing him here, for he is fond of living 
alone, likes his own company best and never visits 
unless h® wants something and I have a pretty good notion 
what he wants now.” As Mr Toms entered the veran- 
dah, his host said, “ Glad to see you old boy ; a 
sight of you is gude for sair e’en.” Hut Toms was 
not in a pleasant frame of mind, and said, “ If it hai 
done good to your eyes it is more than I ean say 
for my legs.” Here he stooped down, drew up his 
trousers, exposing limbs just as black as the timber 
they had crossed, not with charcoal but with bruises, or 
rather both combined. ‘‘M'hy don’t you cut a road 
to a bungalow, or at all events clear away some of that 
timber ? ” For in these times roads were just the 
very last work people thought of commencing, and when 
they commenced them never finished. What was the 
use of roads ? Let us get on with the holing and plant- 
ing, after that is done, time enough to cut roads. But 
after the planting was done there was also something 
else to do, and, having got used to the circuitous foot- 
ways winding round and over logs, they often re- 
mained in this state, as roads, for years. What an 
immense deal of time and labour must have been 
lost and wasted for want of roads, and we quite re- 
collect the wonder and contempt with which some 
bold planter w^as treated, when it was perceived that 
the first work he began on his clearing was to cut 
roads ! What sort of a fellow is this? He will lose the 
«eason, he will be too late with bis planting, time 
enough to cut roads after the land is planted ; and 
there is nothing else to do.” They never thought of the 
work and time the prompt cutting of roads saved, also 
what it saved in plants after the land was planted, 
for all below the roads so cut the young plants were 
covered up with earth cutting from the roads and 
had just to be planted over again, which very 
frequently was never done, so that all underneath 
the roads, which if carefully planted up would of 
oourse have been the best coffee on the estate, only 
presented a bare space of ground, upon which' the 
• crop of weeds was unusually luxuriant, Mr, John 
replied, “ No time to cut roads, and, even if time 
and coolies were available, what ’s the use of cutting 
roads before the land is“planted. It would just be 
a waste of work in more ways than one, for the 
coolies would never go up and down the short cuts 
to their work, or in carrying plants, but always 
round by the road.«, and thus an immense deal of 
time and money would be lost not only . in cutting 
roads but in using them I thought you had more 
sense, Toms.” Mr. Toms said nothing, being probably 
of the opinion, that this explanation was so correct 
