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Eight Years’ Wandering in Ceylon

CHAPTER XII
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You will then find yourself dinnerless, supperless, houseless, comfortless, sleepless, cold and miserable, if you do not know how to manage for yourself.

You will miss your dinner sadly if you are not accustomed to fast for twenty-four hours.

You will also miss your bed decidedly, and your toothbrush in the morning; but if, on the other hand, you are of the right stamp, it is astonishing how lightly these little troubles will sit on you, and how comfortable you will make yourself under the circumstances.
The first thing you will consider is the house.

The architectural style will of course depend upon the locality.

If the ground is rocky and hilly, be sure to make a steep pitch in the bank or the side of a rock form a wall, to leeward of which you will lie when your mansion is completed by a few sticks simply inclined from the rock and covered with grass.


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