Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-07

A.. 80, >'-' " We iUll name-"The Suh
Tracts hyotwari Revised Enact. |
amd ia, lons caught the one native word |
a ..1 ni,'ne up MS small voice, said:
know all about that Has it been |
How muchf" said the legal rnar,t
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pnt thaar -.
Know--made nice to please Ditta M,IIs,
The legsl member left his niaea 80
moved up next to Tods. u
What do you know about Rvotw.r,
little mans' he said '""'i'
I'm not little man, Pm Tods and
known all about it. Ditta Null and f,h,s.,a
Lall and Amir Natb and-oh, lakhs -
my friends tell me about it in the ha,o..
when talk to them.' -a's
"oh, they do, do they, What do tbev
say, Todss' -A' ~ 'Dey
Tods tucked his feet under his rcd a.r-
mel dressing gown and said: II must AMI y
The legal member waited patientlv
fnen Tods, with infinite compassion:
You don't speak my talk, do Won, conn.
cillor sahib?'' ~ seeA
mo; am sorry to say / do not y said tho
legal member. ''''' 'Ae
Very WELL" said Tods, a must fink in
English A"N ~
lie spent minute putting his ide,s in
order and began very slowly, translat, 10
IN his mind from the vernacular to i'm.
ghsh, as many Anglo-Indian children q
ron must remember that the legal mem.
per helped him on by questions when he
matted, for Tods was not equal TO the aus
tanned fight Of oratory that follows.
'sDitta Null says: This thing ia tha to,t
Of child, and was made up by fools !,
But don't think you are fool, councillor
sahib," said Tods hastily. 'sYou caught
my goat. This is what Ditta Null GAYS: 4
am not fool, and why should the Sirkar
say am child? can see If the land is
good and If the landlord is good. IfIam
fool the sin is upon my own head. For
I'VE years ! take my ground for which
nave saved money, and wife take Z, 90
and little son is born Ditta Null has
one daughter now, but he says he will
have son soon. And he says: AT the
end OF five years, by this new bundobust.
must go. II | do not go | must get fresh
seals and takkus stamps on the papers
perhaps in the middle Of the harvest, ant
to go to tie law courts once is wisdom
but to go twice is Jehannum.' THAI
Is quite tree" explained Tods gravely
.. All my friends say SO. And Dit;
,, Null says; Always fresh takkus sat
laying money to vakils and chaprassis ant
, law courts every five years, or else the land
lord makes me go. Why do want to 20
Am | fools II am fool and do %
7 know after forty years good land when
see it let me die But if the new bundobls
says for fifteen years, that it is good an
wise. My little son is a man, and an
burnt, and he takes the ground or anothe
!, ground, paying only once for the takku
stamps on the papers, and his little son i
= born, and ut the end of fifteen years is
l. man too. But what profits is there in fiv
years and fresh rapers? Nothing but dikf
e trouble, diEh. We are not young men VIII
II take these lands, but old ones-not jat
e but tradesr,cn with a little money-an
% for fifteen years we shall have peace. Nc
are we children that the sirkar should tres
us so.'"
Here Tods stopped short, for the who
q, table were listening. The legal memb'
q said to Tods: SIS that all?"
u "All l can remember" said Tods. "B1
~ you should see Ditta Mull's big monke
lie It's just like a councillor sahib."
a. "Tods! Go to bed" said his father.
e- Tods gathered up his dressing gown ts
'y and departed.
y. The legal member brought his haI
er down on the table with a crash-"I
1g Jovep' said the legal member, 81 belle
es the boy is right The short tenure is t
weak point"
m He left early, thinking over what To
ed had said. Now it was obviously impos
Sc BILE for the legal member to play with
ed bunnia's monkey, by way of getting u
zee Outstanding; but he did better. He ma
m inquiries, always bearing in mind the fl
les that the real native-not the hybrid, u
nd versity trained mule-is as timid as co
i'm and, little by little, he coaxed some of
ne men whom the measure concerned most
He timately to give in their views, viii
'er squared very closely with Tods' evidence
ed So the bill was amended in that clau
lat and the legal member was filled with
IDS uneasy suspicion that native members r
resent very little except the orders Il
his carry in their bosoms. But he put
OK Thought from him as illiberal He wa!
IT'S, liberal man.
the After a time the news spread throu
I'M the bazars that Tods had got the bill
The cast in the tenure clause, and if 10
md mamma had not interfered Tods wo
j it have made himself sick on the baskets
I'M fruit and pistachio nuts and Cabuli gra
the and almonds that crowded the verand
IAN Till he went home Tods ranked some
to degrees before the viceroy in popular
are nation But for the little life OF MN
OF could not understand why.
tri In the legal members private paper
OF still lies the rough draft OF the Suo-M
tame Tracts Ryotwari Revised Enactm
not and opposite the twenty second ela
ears penciled in blue chalk and signed ny
I'd a legal member, are the words IT
ars, Amendment. n-Rudyard kippllng