HAPPINESS AND THE PURSUIT OP IT, 
palms of their hands, open wide their months, and 
gaze into each other’s eyes ; then the whole of the 
eyes settle upon master, as this sage speech is de- 
livered. “These cartmen are great thieves, master 
know that.” But whoever the thieves may be is 
clearly of no consequence to the lender. He is not 
going to be such a fool as to be at the trouble of 
lending rice, and then receive it back again two or 
three measures per bushel short. It is bad enough 
to receive back a very much inferior sample of rice, 
compared with what he lent, without submitting 
to this additional injury. ■ So the deficient 
quantity is reporter), and claimed. The bor- 
rower is now down upon his coolies, and stops 
the quantity out of his next issue to the coolies, who 
of course loudly protest, and grumble, “If there should 
be a few rogues amongst them, why should all be 
punished? ” which even master is constrained to acknow- 
ledge as a just remark. So, the next time a boiTowing 
crusade is engaged in, a man who can write, prob- 
ably even the superintendent himself writes down 
all the names of the coolies, and, as they measure 
or re-measure, checks them off, as correct, or short 
in delivery. What a trouble, botheration and turmoil, 
and how true, in the case of borrowing rice, was the 
old saying, “ Those that go aborrowing go asorrow- 
ing.” Again, the rice borrower would sometimes be in 
such urgent haste, that he would send off to his obliging 
neigbour without any bags in w^hich to carry the 
rice. The lender who of course was a man of method 
and system, or he would not be able to lend rice, and 
had all his empty bags slung on a rope attached to 
the beams of the store, would say, “ Well, I will 
give you bags if you will promise to bring them, 
back again to-morrow,” at which simple request the 
coolies being always ready to agree to anything, 
however disagreeable, that was to be put off till to- 
morrow, said with glee, not Nalaku m,” but 
“ Nalaku konduva,'’’ But the next day happened 
to be wet, and the coolies, on proceeding to work, 
put all the bags over their heads and shoulders, to 
keep off the rain. Finding that this made a very com- 
fortable shelter, why, they just kept the bags, and 
did not take them back at all. After some time, and 
no bags were returned, “oh ! but our gude man an 
angry man was he,” he wrote rather a sharp note 
to his neighbour on the subject, who of course was 
very much shocked, sent down to the lines, and gave 
orders under pains and penalties, the result of which 
was, that the obliging lender found himself in pos- 
session of a rare stock of old rags, for every coo- 
lie considered he had faithfully performed his orders 
