, "has no ideas, and my father is not
agriculturist, nor working class; he is of the Kayeth caste; but he had
not the advantage of a collegiate education, and he does not know
much of the Congress. It is a movement for the educated young-man"
-connecting adjective and noun in a sort of vocal hyphen.

"Ah, yes," said Pagett, feeling he was a little off the rails, "and what
are the benefits you expect to gain by it?"

"Oh, sir, everything. England owes its greatness to Parliamentary
institutions, and we should at once gain the same high position in
scale of nations. Sir, we wish to have the sciences, the arts, the
manufactures, the industrial factories, with steam engines, and other
motive powers and public meetings, and debates. Already we have a
debating club in connection with the college, and elect a Mr. Speaker.
Sir, the progress must come. You also are a Member of Parliament and
worship the great Lord Ripon," said the youth, breathlessly, and his
black eyes flashed as he finished his commaless sentences.

"Well," said Pagett, drily, "it has not yet occurred to me to worship
his Lordship, although I believe he is a very worthy man, and I am not
sure that England owes quite all the things you name to the House of
Commons. You see, my young friend, the growth of a nation like ours
is slow, subject to many influences, and if you have read your history
aright"--"Sir. I know it all--all! Norman Conquest, Magna Charta,
Runnymede, Reformation, Tudors, Stuarts, Mr. Milton and Mr. Burke, and
I have read something of Mr. Herbert Spencer and Gibbon's 'Decline and
Fall,' Reynolds' Mysteries of the Court,'" and Pagett felt like one who
had pulled the string of a shower-bath unawares, and hastened to stop
the torrent with a question as to what particular grievances of the
people of India the attention of an elected assembly should be first
directed. But young Mr. Dma Nath was slow to particularize. There were
many, very many demanding consideration. Mr. Pagett would like to hear
of one or two typical examples. The Repeal of the Arms Act was at last
named, and the student learned for the first time that a license was
necessary before an Englishman could carry a gun in England. Then
natives of India ought to be allowed to become Volunteer Riflemen if
they chose, and the absolute equality of the Oriental with his European
fellow-subject in civil status should be proclaimed on principle, and
the Indian Army should be considerably re