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A NATURALIST ON THE PROWL. 
of a tree, they did not know, for not knowing would 
avert further trouble, and they were not yet civilized 
enough to invent names to please us. But the seed of 
intelligence was there, not dead, only dormant. We 
manured it with pice, and it germinated and began to 
grow. They took to looking about them as they followed 
us, and would draw attention to a butterfly or a bird. 
Then they began to find caterpillars. 
We addressed them endearingly as “ Pigs.” In case 
this meets the eye of any Member of Parliament, I should 
like to explain that the word was not used in an offensive 
sense, and had nothing to do with the opprobrious term 
soor, or sowar , which, as Mr. Schwann, M.P., who has 
travelled in India, must know, means swine, and is 
commonly applied by Anglo-Indians to Native Cavalry. 
We made use of the English word, accompanying it with a 
kindly smile, and we can safely affirm that the little boys 
appeared to be proud of the title and tried to live up to it. 
Presently it began to be known in the bazaar that the 
Pigs had discovered a new and lucrative industry, and 
other boys began to appear about the gate, coughing 
and spitting to attract attention. In their hands they 
clutched the remains of a battered butterfly, or a snail, 
