_Gopi._ I am very sorry that I have destroyed this man of great honour by a false law-suit. I have also felt great pain on hearing of Nobin’s severe head-ache and the miserable condition of his mother. _Cowherd._ _It is the cold attacking a frog._[39] Dewanji, don’t be angry with me, I am as a mad goat; shall I prepare the tobacco? _Gopi._ This stupid fellow of Nanda’s family is very senseless. _Cowherd._ The Sahebs are doing all: _they themselves are blacksmiths and at the same time the cimeter; where they make one to fall, there they themselves also fall_. If ruin come upon these Saheb’s Factories, then the people of the villages save themselves by bathing.[40] _Gopi._ You are very foolish. I don’t want to hear any more? Go out, the Saheb will come very soon. _Cowherd._ Now, I am going. You must attend to my milk bill, and also give me one rupi to-morrow. We shall go to bathe in the Ganges. (_Exit Cowherd._) _Gopi._ _I think the thunder-bolt will strike this head, which is aching._ No one will be able to stop the Saheb in sowing the Indigo seed on the sides of your tank. The Sahebs did something improper. These persons engaged themselves to sow Indigo on fifty bigahs of land, although they did not get the full price for the last year. Yet the Sahebs are not satisfied; these disputes arose only for certain pieces of grounds; and it would have been good for Nobin Bose to have given them these—_to keep the goddess Sitola[41] well-pleased is the best_. Nobin will bite once more even after his death. (_Seeing the Saheb at a distance_). Here the white-bodied man with a blue dress is coming. I think, I am to remain as a companion with the former Dewan for some days. _Enter_ MR. WOOD. _Wood._ There will be a great quarrel at Matanagara: and all the latyals will be there. Let no one hear this? For this place, make a collection of ten of the poda caste of (Surki) brickpowder makers or sellers. I, Mr. Rose, and you are to go there. The fool while he has taken his cacha[42] will not be able to increase the row greatly. He is sick; then how can he go to bring assistance from the Darogah. _Gopi._ The extreme weakness to which these are reduced, makes it unnecessary to bring any _surkiwallá_ among the Hindus, for a person to die with a rope round his neck, especially within a prison is very disgraceful; so he is greatly punished by this occurrence.