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 kan!" In fact, it was difficult to distinguish him from other people by his clothes. Yet to a discerning eye, his appearance was striking and memorable.

During the tours of inspection through the four districts he induced the leading men of the localities to open new schools. He travelled in palanquins. If he found any sick person on the roadside, he instantly picked him up. To the needy he was always clement.

At this time upwards of a hundred poor people were daily fed by him. This wide liberality, as has been said already, he inherited partly from his mother who was always solicitous for the comfort of others. It was to her the village folk came in all their joys and sorrows, fully assured that she would share in them, increasing the former and lessening the burden of the latter. She was often found walking about the village on her endless visits of charity, bringing happiness to hundreds of homes. No woman could be more hospitable. At noon