He is about five months old and a huge 'baby.' Cracker and he are taken out together for walks and rough-housing with each other, by two Hindu local boys, one with a pink turban and the other with a yellow turban—they look as if they were going to a dog race when one sees them start out. Daney is friends with 'Foundy' and also, sleeps in my room at night—so we are three personalities' in one enclosure.

"To keep us still busier, a fourth dog, a darling soft small dachshund. arrived through Sarosh. An English captain and his wife who returned to England, gave it, with all its pedigrees, to him. The six months' quarantine law in England is so heartrending to those who return. Mani had wanted a dachshund before she had Cracker and Sarosh had heard about it. However, now that Cracker is such a fireworks, she could not have another dog right there. Of course, I came along just as it was being returned to the car and it gave me one look which melted my heart (easy to be melted by animals), and said, like the expectant mother, 'It is as easy to have three children as two.' However, Norina returned from a walk and fell unexpectedly in love with "Banja" (his full name is Banjamore); he now is in her room adjoining mine. The first day Daney, who is so huge, barked his head off and we thought it was because he wanted to gobble up the little 'dacks' and then, fortunately, we found that it was merely the ball that the dacks played with!

"Well, now the 'unresolved question' is what to do with these darlings when there are visitors. Norina says that Mrs. Duce being a Sufi, will want to meditate and expect only peace and quiet in an ashram! Of course with Baba there is a place for everything.

"Which leads me to the thought of Baba's 'Religion of Life' and I enclose for you a leaflet of his Message at Surat. That was where there were hundreds of people gathered to meet him. It was something like the gathering at Madras, only that was still larger. Surat is the stronghold of the Parsees and the place they first came to a hundred years ago. Only because of turbulent feelings presently of Hindu and Moslems, it was thought better to keep the Surat gathering to Parsees. Baba says the orthodox Parsees are as ritual-ridden as any religion or more so. All the original scriptures were destroyed, I understand, at the time the original Parsees were persecuted in Persia and came to India. What is now used as Scriptures is what was put down from memory; still they stick to the 'letter.' While the message of Baba's 'Religion of Life' was given to the Parsees, nevertheless it applies universally.