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IS 172.2 Story of an Emigrant.
Hindoo classcs stands before him stating what message he
wishes to send to his wife and relatives in the country.
With a sharp steel instrument the writer inscribes some
strange Bengal letters on the palm leaf, folds it upintoalittle
package which is sent by a traveling neighbor, or, perhaps,
bv a swift messenger, to the dear one in the humble cottage
which stands somewhere out on the plain among the rice
fields.
A little further on sits a native barber, also on the
sidewalk." Instead of a barber’s chair he has a common-sized
HINDOO BARBER.
brick. The man who is to be shaved squats down opposite
the barber; it the customer is the shorter of the two the
brick is put under his feet, but if he is taller the barber puts
the brick under his own feet, in order that they may be on a
■The Hindoo* never >-it hn \vc do, hut squat on the ground and rest the weight
of the body on the heel*.
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