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_Treats of the Startling Effect of a reduction in Wages and the / Pleasures of Loaferdom. Paints the State of the Boondi Road and the / Treachery of Ganesh of Situr._
"A twenty-five per cent. reduction all roun' an' no certain leave when you wants it. _Of_ course the best men goes somewhere else. That's only natural, and 'eres this sanguinary down mail a stickin' in the eye of the Khundwa down! I tell you, Sir, India's a bad place -- a very bad place. 'Tisn't what it was when I came out one and thirty years ago, an' the drivers was getting their seven and eight 'undred rupees a month an' was treated as _men_."