repairs and get the work done for five pies, one clear pie will
adhere to his glutinous palm. I do not assert that this is what
happens, for I know nothing about it. All I maintain is that there
is no hypothesis which will satisfactorily explain all the facts,
unless you admit the general principle that the syce derives
advantage of some kind from the manipulation of the smallest copper
coin. One notable phenomenon which this principle helps to explain
is the syce's anxiety to have his horse shod on the due date every
month. If the shoes are put on so atrociously that they stick for
more than a month, I suspect he considers it professional to help
them off.

Horses in this country are fed mostly on "gram," cicer arietinum, a
kind of pea, which, when split, forms dall, and can be made into a
most nutritious and palatable curry. The Ghorawalla recognises this
fact. If he is modest, you may be none the wiser, perhaps none the
worse; but if he is not, then his horse will grow lean, while he
grows stout. How to obviate this result is indeed the main problem
which the syce presents, and many are the ways in vogue of trying to
solve it. One way is to have the horse fed in your presence, you
doing butler and watching him feed. Another is to play upon the
caste feelings of the syce, defiling the horse's food in some way. I
believe the editor of the Aryan Trumpet considers this a violation of
the Queen's proclamation, and, in any case, it is a futile device.
It may work with the haughty Purdaisee, but suppose your Ghorawalla
is a Mahar, whose caste is a good way below that of his horse? I
have nothing to do with any of these devices. I establish a compact
with my man, the unwritten conditions of which are, that I pay him
his wages, and supply a proper quantity of provender, while he, on
his part, must see that his horse is always fat enough to work, and