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

a Tods Most men had saved him .
~. -. aeath on occasions. He was beyond
" W.. .rah,s control altogether, and perilled
~ ~ I;fa daily to find out what would
y II YOU pulled Mountain battery
na Frs. tail. He was an utterly fearless
n ..,ng nagan, about 8 years old, and the
vlrSS ahv who ever broke the holy calm of
~, legislative council.
u !. hannened this way: Tods' pet kid got
,..ss and fed up the hill, off the Boileau-
w. Sssce road. Tods after it, until it burst
49, ~ The yiceregal lodge lawn, then at
. ns TO "Peterhoff" The council were
':..,no at the time, and the windows were
3D. snsn because it was warm. The Red Lancer
y he porch told Tods to go away; hut
Tods knew the Red Lancer and most Of
10 members of the council personally |
Mo,aover. he had firm hold Of the kids
aollar and was being dragged all across
the flower beds.
aG;ye nv salaam to the long councillor |
sahb. and ask him to help me take Mott |
bsckr' gasped Tods. The council heard
the noise thrSigh the open windows, and,
after al, interval, was. seen the shocking
.nsctaele of legal member and q lieuten-
mi governor helping, under the direct
rotronage of commander-in-chief and a
r;ceroy. one small and very dirty boy in
.silor's suit and tangle Of brown hair, TO
coercs lively and rebellious kid. They
headed it off down the path to the Mall,
| and Tods went home in triumph and told
his mamma that all the councillor sahibs
had been helping him to catch Mott.
Wbereat his mamma smacked Tods for in
terfering with the administration of tine
emnre: but Tods met the legal member
the next day, and told him in confidence
that if the legal member ever wanted to
catch a goat, he, Tods, would give him "
| the help in his power. "Thank you, Tods,
said the legal member.
Tods was the idol of some eighty jham-
panis and half as many saises. He saluted
them all as 80 Brother" 1t never entered
bis head that any living human being
could disobey his orders; and he was the
buffer between the servants and his mann
mas wrath. The working of that house
hold turned ON Tods, who was adored by
every one from the dhoby to the dog boy.
Even Futteh Khan. the villainous loafer
knit from Mussoorie, shirked risking
Tods displeasure for fear his co-mates
should look down on him.
So Tods had honor in the land from
Boileaugunge to Chota Simla, and ruled
Justly according to his lights. OF course
many queer side spec hes like the chotee
bolee of the women, and held grave con
verse with shopkeepers and Hill coolies
alike. He was precocious for his age, and
his mixing with natives had taught him
some of the more bitter truths of life; the
meanness and the sordidness of it. He
used, over his bread and milk, to deliver
solemn and serious aphorisms, translated
from the vernacular into the English, that
made his mamma jump and vow that Tods
must go home next hot weather
Just when Tods was in the bloom of hit
power the supreme legislature were hack
ing out bill for the Sub Montane tracts
areyision of the then act, smaller than thu
Punjab land bill, but affecting few hun
dred Thousand people none the less. TIL
legal member had built and bolstered ant
embroidered and amended that bill till i
looked beautiful on paper. Then the coun
Gil began to settle what they called tn
minor details" AS If any Englishmal
legslating for natives knows enough t
know which are the minor and which ar
the major points, from the native point Q
view, of any measure! That bill was tr
umph of safe guarding the interests c
the tenant"
One clause provided that land should nc
w 'Uosea ou hunger tcFAlS tndA ANc yCtti
ata stretch; because, if the landlord had
tenant bound down for, say, twenty year
he would squeeze the very life out of hin
The notion was to keep up stream of il
dependent cultivators in the Sub-Montar
tracts, and ethnologically and POLITICAL
the notion was correct. The only draw
back was that it was altogether wrong.
natives life in India implies the life of b
son. Wherefore you cannot legislate fl
one generation at time. You must co
slder the next from the native point
view. Curiously enough, the native no
and then, and in Northern India more pa
ueularly. hates being over protected again
himself. There was a Maya village on
where they lived on dead and buried col
mlssariat mules. But that is anoth
story
For many reasons to be explained lat'
tne people concerned objected to the bl
The native member in council knew
much about Punjabis as he knew abo
onaring Cross. He had said in Calcut
mat the bill was entirely in accord wi
Inc desires of that large and importa
eiass the cultivators," and SO on, ana
on The legal members knowledge of l
yves was limited to English speaking ID
paris, and his own red chaprassis, the 81
oIdClS COuCeFueu no Oue Ia ~
ocular, the deputy commissioners were
good deal too driven to make represen
aons, and the measure was one viii
ueait with small landholders only. New
neiess, the legal member prayed that
uisht be correct, for he was nervous
eonscientious man. He did not know u
w man can tell what natives think uni
le mikes with them with the yarnish I
ana not always then. But he did the
ue Knew. And the measure came up
tae supreme council for the final touch
while Tods patroled the Burra Simla Ba
u ms morning rides, and played with
monkey belonging to Ditta Null, the b
u'a' and listened, as a child listens, to
,ne stray talk about this new freak OF
Lat Sahib's.
one day there was dinner party at
uouse OF Tods' mamma, and the le
Lemoer came. Tods was in bed, but
ihepe awake till he heard the burst.
M ~.usnter from the men over the col
suen he padded out in his little red
vel dressing gown and his night suit
"ok refuge by the side of his father. KIN
.ns That he would not be sent back.
T ne mlseries of having a familyF'
s .oas father, giving Tods three pru
ohe water in glass that had been !
ut aaret and telling him to sit still. 1
S 1eAed the prunes slowly, knowing tina
~ oaid have to go when they were fms
wv 1pped the mink water like ma