of Mrs Hodson's dress than with anything her husband said to
them.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

VILLAGE WASHERMAN.

Daniel was by this time regularly installed as Mission Washerman. There
is no such person as a _washerwoman_ amongst the Hindoos. Men do the
washing in India, and their manner of doing it is very different from
the English mode. Instead of using wash-tubs, etcetera, etcetera, as an
English washerwoman does, the Indian washerman loads a donkey or two
with the dirty clothes, takes them to a tank of good clean water, and
there, in the open air, he performs all his purifying operations. Close
to the water's edge there is placed a sloping piece of wood, or a large
flat stone. The washerman standing close to it, dips the cloth or
garment into the water, and taking hold of one end gives the other,
which has been dipped, a good swing in the air and brings it down on the
wood or stone with a heavy splashing thump. This is repeated again and
again, until the cloth or garment is clean. It is then laid out on the
grass or rock to dry. In this way Daniel and his relatives had done all
the washing required by the farmers and others, in Goobbe and
Singonahully, for many years. In their cases ironing or mangling was
never thought of. When, therefore, Daniel was sent for to do the
Mission-house washing and ironing, he expressed his readiness to do the
former, but doubted his ability to perform the latter, and expressed
many fears. But Mrs Hodson shewed him how to wash and also to iron her
dresses in the way she wished to have them done. She made him a present
of an iron, taught him how to use it, so that, in due time, his work was
pronounced satisfactory, and it was acknowledged by all that Daniel
stood at the head of his profession--that his skill exceeded that of any
other washerman within a circuit of many miles round Goobbe. This
little act of kindness in giving the iron to Daniel, was gratefully
remembered by him as long as he could remember anything, and he would
occasionally shew it to visitors. Under other circumstances he would
doubtless have worshipped that smoothing iron as his forefathers did the
old swords.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN.

FIRST MISSION-HOUSE AT GOOBBE.

Mrs Hodson laid the foundation brick of the Goobbe Mission House on the
24th of May, 1838. The building was finished on the 17th of August
following, and cost 180 pounds. A few days after it was finished, Mr
and Mrs John Jenkins, wit