HAPPINESS AND THE PURSUIT OF IT. 
as not to admit of any dispute, besides it would 
hardly be judicious for him to commence a dispute 
just at present, for be said, ‘'John, I have come 
over to borrow some more rice from you, and the 
very least I can do with is twenty bushels.” In 
these times, when we were all dependent on the 
will, pleasure, or convenience, of the cartmen, there 
were some people vAio were always borrowing rice ; 
they never had any of their own, because, whenever 
their rice carts arrived, they had just to pay it all 
away to some neighbour from whom they bad bor- 
rowed, and a few days after doing so, be at him again 
to lend them more ! Indeed, if ihe obliging neigbour 
from whom they had borrowed lived a little way 
down the road, very probably their rice carts would 
never reach their destination, but be ordered to 
stop, stand and deliver, before coming to the end of 
their journey : an order, which of course the cart- 
men were only too glad to receive, as it saved them 
some miles of additional journey, at the same hire, 
so their answer, in receiving this order, was some- 
thing more than the usual grunt of HondaijV^ It was, 
“ Bohoma liondayl ; liondayi maliatmaya,'^ which may 
convey a double meaning, any way you liked to take 
it, or more properly expressing both, '* Very goodV or 
“ Good master V What a good master to save us four 
miles of journey, and that nasty pull upto the rice 
store, and at the same time, without any dispute 
or reluctance, pay us our full hire.” Bohoraa 
hondayi !” There were likewise people who never 
were out of rice : not only this, but who were 
always able and willing to assist their neighbours. 
Such were often put to a great deal of bother and 
trouble, not only in entering the rice store, gener- 
ally at unseasonable hours, in .order to issue rice 
to the famished coolies from their neighbour’s estate, 
but, very likely, also at unseasonable hours, to be 
at the trouble of measuring it, wdieii it was sent 
back ! The obliging planter who had lent his neigh- 
bour rice, after the day’s wmrk was done, and he was 
comfortably settled down for the rest of the even- 
ing, perhaps even at dinner, would be startled by the 
appearance of a string of coolies in front of the house, 
under heavy loads, contained in gunny or mat bags 
on their heads. It might be a pour of rain, still, 
he had to get up, go down to the store, and again 
measure in bis own rice, all wet and caked, whereas, 
when he lent it, it was sound and dry. Nor is this 
all, for here is a pretty go : why, it is all one or 
two measures short ! “What is the meaning of this, 
you rascals ?” The rascals assume a look of injured 
innocence and great astonishment, spread out the 
