EVERYTHING LOST. 161 given against them. "You, the hakim" (magistrate—not myself, but my predecessor in office), "told us to do it. We sold and pawned all we had-cattle, dishes, clothesand borrowed money to buy court-fee stamps with. What have we got by it? We have lost the land we sued for, and everything else besides." It was a warning to me, and I am always most careful never to advise a man to go to law. Ꮮ OTHER CLASSES. HAVING finished what I have to say about Hodge, I will now shortly glance at the other classes of the community. There are first the great army of producers and distributors the fishermen, boatmen, carters, milkmen, weavers, oil-pressers, makers of shoes and other garments, blacksmiths, potters, carpenters, goldsmiths, barbers, and other village servants, grocers, dealers in cloth and other wares. In the great centres, where workshops and factories on an extensive scale have been set up, large bands of trained work- men and women have been organised. These have been more or less imbued with English notions, and strikes are not unknown. |