rented house, and provided for their comfortable living.
In spite of these dire catastrophes, the thoughts of his educational institutions were always vivid in his mind. He never for a moment lost sight of them. The anxieties for their welfare and success made him sometimes forget his afflictions. Even under such distressing circumstances, he opened, in 1874, a Branch Metropolitan School at Syampukur. Like them other institution, it soon rose to high eminence and success.
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Shoe Question.
On the 28th January, 1874, Vidyasagar, having an occasion to visit the Library of the Asiatic Society, proceeded to the place, accompanied by Haris Chandra, the celebrated Hindi poet of Benares (since deceased), and Surendra Nath Banarji, a son of Raj Krishna Banarji, who wanted to see the Indian Museum. It is needless to say that, at that time, the two institutions were located in one and the same building in Park Street. Vidyasagar was clothed, as usual with him, in a plain Dhuti and Chadar with a pair of native slippers covering his feet. Haris Chandra was dressed in accordance with the modern style of civilization, clothing his legs with trousers, his body with Choga and Chapkan, his head with a Pagri, and covering
