LACHMAN.
[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECYATOR."3 Sra,—The story of Lachman must have been read, with joy throughout India. We have all known Lachman and the inevitable telegram that summons him to the aid of his suffer- ing relations. My mali (gardener) is equally handicapped. Only the other day he clinks with a long face and a piece of pink paper in his hand on which was written " Mother ill; come at once." January is a busy month, so I said firmly (the equivalent of) " nonsense," knowing if the message by any remote chance was true he would go. He bears no malice, and has just brought me his daily offering of violets, and is full of the glories of the new pink cactus dahlia. A friend in Shillong had a mali who was constantly being sent for to nurse the sick or comfort the bereaved. When sho finally parted from him, more in sorrow than in anger, she wrote in his chit that she "must have someone with less delicate- relations."—I am, Sir, &c., K. S. RICHARDSON. 21 Belvedere Road, Alipore, Calcutta.
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