Hindus of the better sort are beginning to be outwardly, and some of them, I hope, inwardly, rather ashamed of this festival, and it is time they were.

There is a third demand that, if there is a Hindu on the Viceroy's Executive Councila subject on which I will venture to say something to your Lordships before I sit downthere should be two Indian members on the Viceroy's Council and one should be a Mahomedan.

A policeman saw the fusscame up and started to put the Hindu in his place.

In my humble opinion they are humiliating to the Supreme Council, to the British ministers, and if as a Hindu with deep reverence for Christianity I may say so, a denial of Christ's teachings.

And as he passes, bending under the weight of his sacks, you catch the chink of the little empty coffee-cups without handles, which the itinerant Arab is soon to fill for his patrons from the portable coffee-pot in his left hand, or the tremulous "malpurwa jaleibi" of the lean Hindu from Kathiawar who caters for the early breakfast of the millhand.

Hindus out of fear, apathy or want of appreciation of the situation, may refuse to help their Mahomedan brethren in their hour of peril.

" Thus when food is cooked, an oblation is made by the Hindu to trees, with an appropriate invocation before the food is eaten.

To come down into the plains and mulct the pious Hindu by some such ingenious practice would appeal to the Pathan's sense of humour almost as much as to his pocket.