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Show PART OF THE ESTATE. Servant Folk In India Remain Long In Positions. Servant folk In India attach thorn-selves thorn-selves to the house; they liccomo part of tho famllj, wtlti-s Mrs. Kverard Cotes. Certainly masters hao a troublesome trou-blesome habit, every twenty years or so. of slipping away to Kngland to grow old lu the enjoyment of "pen-sin." "pen-sin." hut there Is usually sumo ono left behind of the old slock, some son or daughter grown and married and living In l.ncknow or-Jubbulporc, who will take on tho servants of childhood, and to whom they contentedly go. Or they glow, by tho clnlm of long custom, cus-tom, to the placo. Our garduor, Atma, was hoio gardening for fourtoon years bofore we came; and we have been his titular lords for sl. Wo perform a function; wo pay him his wages and admire his roses, but we are Incidental, Inci-dental, Atma and tho garden are tho enduring facts. Long after wo have disappeared In the direction of I'erlm nnd the lied sen Atma will prune- and rule lu this, our once domain, for which of our successors would dream of turning out tho diviner ot otory dahlia, tho geogiapher of all tho hidden hid-den roots nnd Imlbs? . |