AN INDIAN SCHOOL Charles Johnston. Early November 1889. We came back to our tents after a gallop in the cool of the morning, and found the little All at once the minas are silent, peering about in suspicious alarm; then, scolding shrilly, they rise and whirr away past our tent to a deeper shade, the grey squirrels seek safety in an upper branch, and even the busy woodpecker pauses for a moment to peep down into a glade beside us. The cause of this woodland panic was soon disclosed in the appearance of a Bengali village school of Pathshala, headed by a spectacled busybody.