I used to be able to do it, as a boy, but from always sitting on divans or chairs in European fashion, I have got out of the way of it, and I don't think I could squat for a quarter of an hour, to save my life." Dick's mother and cousins laughed heartily, but he said, seriously, "You are quite right, Uncle.

I wonder I never thought of it before.

It was stupid of me not to do so.

Of course, when I have been talking with Surajah or other officers, by a camp fire, I have sat on the ground; but I see that it would never do, in native dress.

I will begin at once." "Wait a moment, Dick," the Rajah said.