string and find that it wakes up half a dozen and finally say with a friend of yours in the telegraph who once wrote some notes on the customs of the gold when he was on construction work in their part of the empire he may or may not be pleased at being ordered to write out everything he knows for your benefit this depends on his temperament the bigger man you are the more information and the greater trouble can you raise was not a big man but he had the reputation of being very earnest an earnest man can do much with a government there was an earnest man once who nearly wrecked � but all india knows that story i am not sure what real earnestness is a very imitation can be by to dress de plain tales from the hills by about in a dreamy misty sort of way by taking office work home after ring in office till seven and by receiving crowds of native gentlemen on sundays that is one sort of earnestness cast about for a whereon to hang his earnestness and for a string that would communicate with he found both they were pig became an after pig he informed the government that he had a scheme whereby a very large of the british army in india could be fed at a very large saving on pig then he hinted that might supply him with the varied information necessary to the proper of the scheme so the wrote on the back of the letter instruct mr to furnish mr with any information in his power is very prone to writing things on the backs of letters which later lead to trouble and confusion had not the interest in pig but he knew that would into the trap was delighted at being consulted about pig the indian pig is not exactly an important � in agricultural life but explained to that there was room for improvement and direct with that young man pig you may think that there is not much to be from pig it all depends how you set to work being a and wishing to do things thoroughly began with an essay on the primitive pig the of the pig and the pig filed that information � twenty seven sheets � and wanted to know about the distribution of the pig in the and how it stood the plains in the hot weather from this point remember that i am giving you only the outlines of the affair � the ropes as it were of the web that spun round made a coloured pig population map and collected observations on the comparative of pig a in the sub tracts of the and b in the filed that and asked what sort of people looked after pig this started an on and drew from long tables showing the proportion per thousand of the caste in the filed that bundle and explained that the figures which he wanted referred to the states where he understood that pigs were very fine and large and where he proposed to start a by this time had quite forgotten their instructions to mr they were like the gentlemen in poem who turned well plain tales from the hills wheels to skin other people but was just entering into the spirit of the pig hunt as well knew he would do he had a � ur amount of work of his own to clear away but he sat up of nights pig to five places of for the honour of his service he was not going to appear ignorant of so easy a subject as pig then government sent him on special duty to to inquire into the big seven foot of that district people had been killing each other with those peaceful tools and wished to know whether a modified form of agricultural could not and as a temporary measure be introduced among the agricultural population without or the existing religious sentiments of the between those and s pig was rather heavily now began to take up a the of the pig with a view to the improvement of its as a flesh former the of the pig maintaining its peculiarities replied that the pig would become in the type and quoted horse breeding to prove this the side issue was at great length on pig s side till owned that he had been in he wrong and moved the previous question when had quite written himself out about flesh and and and the of and raised the of expense by this time who had been transferred from had developed a pig theory of his own which he stated in thirty three pages � all carefully filed by who asked for more these things took ten months and s interest in the seemed to die down after he had stated his own views but him with letters on the imperial aspect of the scheme as tending to the sale of pork and thereby calculated to give offence to the population of upper india he guessed that would want some broad free hand work after his details handled the latest development of the case in style and proved that no popular of excitement was to be apprehended said that there was nothing like insight in matters of this kind and him up a by path � the possible profits to to the government fi om the sale of there is an extensive literature of and the shoe brush and colour man s trades recognise more va h plain tales from the hills of than you would think possible after had wondered a little at s rage for information he sent back a fifty one pages on of the pig this led him under s tender handling straight to the the trade in for � and thence to the wrote that seed was the best cure for skin 