Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.

ins, with a shawl thrown over the shoulders, constitutes the usual apparel of the people of respectability. These garments are often fringed with red silk

rom the Mohammedans This consists of a long piece of very fine stuff, sometimes twent

long robe of muslin, or very fine cloth. This also, is in imita

tired part of the house. In the houses of the Brahmins, the kitchen-door is always barred, to prevent strangers from looking upon their earthen vessels; for if they should happen to see them, their look would pollute

wards pours the currie over it. This being done, the husband proceeds to mix up the currie and the rice with his hands, and puts it into his mouth. He never uses a knife and fork, as is customary with us. The currie of which I have spoken is a sauce of a yellow color, owing to the munchel, a yellow root which they put in it. This and onions, kottamaly-seeds mustard, serakum, pepper, etc., constitute the

. Why they use paakku, I do not know. It is a nut, which they cut into small pieces, but it has not much taste. Sometimes the wife brings her husband a segar. This people, I am sorry to say, are great smokers and chewers, practices of whi

partaken of the Lord's supper, his wife considered him so defiled, that she would not put

en leaf, with a large stem running through the middle of it. It is one of the handsomest of leaves. Pieces enough can be torn from a si

Carpenters and other tradesmen also sit down either on a board, or on the ground, or on their legs, when they work. It would divert you much to see their manoeuvring. If a carpenter, for instance, wants to make a little peg, he will take a small piece of board, and place it in an erect position between his feet

the iron. I wish you could see them at work with their simple apparatus. They have small anvils, which they place

low the fire, they extend these bags to let in the air. They then close them by means of the thumb on one side, and the fingers on the other, and press them down towards the nozzl

to cooking, the females have to prepare the rice for this purpose, by taking it out of the husk. This they do by beating it in a mortar about two feet high. The pestle with which they pound it, is about five feet long, made of wood, with an iron rim around the lower part of it. Three women can work at these mortars at the same time. Of cours

to the heart. In others, they simply stretch it out towards the person who is passin

ir way. They have borrowed the word salam from the Mohammedans. They salute both Mohammedans and Europeans with this word, at the same time raising their hand to the fore

ehead, or sometimes over the head. It is accompanied with andamayya, which means, Hail,

n lowering both hands to the feet of the person to be

ad, and the arms, all touch the ground. In doing this, they throw themselves at their whole length on the ground, and stretch out both arms

kiss each other. Sometimes mothers, or other individuals, will put their noses to the cheeks of little children, and draw the air through them, just as we do when we smell any t

y are in the presence of those whom they highly esteem. They are never permitted to sit in

remain standing until he has passed. He must at the same time take off his slippers. He also must take off

him, and cover their mouths with their hands while they are speaking, le

respect, or to show that they come with a friendly intention; especially if they wish to ask some favor in return. When th

ugh at a distance of a hundred miles. Letters of con