"I wonder who the dark young man in the fancy knickers is?" "Ah, I daresay you'll know some day," said Mrs. Dowson.

There are the short gray knickers and the thin white shirt affected by the Native Christian boy; there is the short black hair; but the skin is white, unusually white for a native of Goa, and there is something curious about the face which prompts you to ask the owner who he is and whence he comes.

Darned socks which had covered active little feet; tiny short "knickers" patched at the knees; shabby coatmoulded, it would seem, into the very shape of the chubby figurethe mother ironed and polished them, and laid them in a tidy heap.

Some of them had on uniform knickers, and some, long, unpressed trousers.