(b) It ought not to be difficult to get each one to do two annas worth of work, and this will be more than sufficient to cover their expenses. We have no desire to become _sweaters._ (c) _Begging is hard work._ If you don't believe it, come and try it! I and many of my officers have begged our food as religious mendicants, so that we, are able to speak from _experience_! It is at best a life of sacrifice, hardship and suffering. And yet we have practised it under _specially favorable circumstances_, particularly those of us who are Europeans. But that there can be any sort of rest, or ease, or enjoyment in it to those who are driven to it by the pangs of hunger, unsupported by any spiritual consolations, I cannot conceive. On the contrary I should say that the task of the beggar is so hard, and disagreeable not to say _shameful_, that the majority of them would leap to do the most menial tasks that would deliver them from a bondage so painful. Have you ever solicited help and been refused? Have you known what it is to feel the awful sickenings of heart at hope deferred? Have you known what it is to be regarded with suspicion, with contempt, with dislike, with scorn, or even with _pity_ by your fellow men? If so, you may be able to realise the experiences that every beggar has to go through a hundred times a day, many of them with feelings every bit as sensitive as your own. Will he demean himself and work hard at so miserable a calling and yet be unwilling to do some light work, with which he can earn an honest living? I for one cannot believe it, till I see it. (d) Our experience further contradicts it in dealing with the more depraved, hardened and supposed-to-be-idle criminals and prostitutes, whom we receive into our Prison Gate and Rescue Homes. When Sir E. Noel Walker was visiting our Prisoners' Home in Colombo he was astonished at the _alacrity_ with which the men obeyed orders, and the _eagerness_ with which they worked at their allotted tasks. He asked the Officer in Charge whether he ever _"hammered"_ them, and was surprised at finding that the only hammer he ever required was the _allsufficient_ hammer of _love._ And yet the gates were always open and they were free to walk out whenever they liked. Moreover, beyond getting their food and a very humble sort of shelter, their labour was entirely unpaid. (e) Finally by means of a judicious system of rewards and promotions we should educate and encourage them into working, besides teaching them industries which would be useful after they had left us.