As he passes through the villages, coquettish glances from pretty dark eyes are cast at him, and he is greeted with playful remarks. Chūnnee is as much sought after now as he was formerly shunned. It is a matter of common talk that a rich thakur would gladly give him his daughter to wife; but Chūnnee appears satisfied with his present lot, and shows no signs of changing his condition. Our story is ended, and we will now take leave of Chūnnee and his charger, of Gyannia and her ferret-faced cat, of Girunda--who is almost as precious to Turroo as the forty pairs of pearls again buried beneath the floor--of the envious, adder-tongued family of Zālim Sing--and cast a final glance on the sleepy patriarchal village, where it lies among its waving crops on the hillside, within sight of a glint of the sacred Ganges. THE END. PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES. Transcriber’s Notes: Archaic spellings have been retained. A number of typographical errors have been corrected silently. Gadrinath was changed to Badrinath. Badrinath is a well known holy city and no place by the name of Gadrinath could be located. The following word pairs were normalized to one spelling by majority vote: “Chunnee” to “Chūnnee” “copybook” to “copy-book” “cocoa-nut” to “cocoanut” “deathlike” to “death-like” “hillman” to “hill-man” “pockmarked” to “pock-marked” “race-course” to “racecourse”