in a majority of cases, and partially even in those exceptions.
Another mode adopted in two instances, of regulating the fees is
according to the means of the parents whose children are in-
structed; a half, a third, or a fourth less being charged to the
children of poor than to the children of rich parents in the
successive stages of instruction. The perquisites of the teachers
vary from four annas to five rupees a month; in the former case
consisting of a piece of cloth or other occasional voluntary gift
from the parents; and in the latter, or in similar cases, of food
alone, or of food, washing, and all personal expenses, together
with occasional presents. Those who receive food as a perquisite
either live in the house of one of the principal supporters of the
school, or visit the houses of the different parents by turns at
meal-times. The total income of the teachers from fixed salaries
and fluctuating fees and perquisites varies from three rupees
eight annas to seven rupees eight annas per month, the average
being rather more than five rupees per month.
The school at Dharail (No.34) affords a good specimen of
the mode in which a small native community unite to support a
school. At that place there are four families of Chaudhuris, the
principal persons in the village; but they are not so wealthy as to
be able to support a teacher for their children without the
cooperation of others. They give the teacher an apartment in
which his scholars may meet, one of the outer apartments of
their own house in which business is sometimes transacted, and
at other times worship performed and strangers entertained.
One of those families further pays four annas a month, a second
an equal sum, a third eight annas, and a fourth twelve annas,
which include the whole of their disbursements on this account,
no presents or perquisites of any kind being received from them,
and for the sums mentioned their five children receive a Bengali
education. The amount thus obtained, however, is not sufficient
for the support of the teacher, and he, therefore, receives other
scholars belonging to other families—of whom one gives one
anna, another gives three annas, and five give each four annas a
month, to which they add voluntary presents amounting per
month to about four annas, and consisting of vegetable, rice, fish
and occasionally a piece of cloth, such as a handkerchief or an
upper or under garment. Five boys of Kagbariya, the children of
two families, attend the Dharail school, the distance being about
a mile, which, in the rainy season, can be travelled only by
water. Of the five, two belonging to one family give together two
annas, and the three others belonging to the other family give
together four annas a month, and thus the whole income of the