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560 LIFE OF BABU SHY AM A. CHURN SIRKAR, his master, it is said that he gave up his appointment Whether he voluntarily did so, or under some sort of compulsion, it is impossible now to ascertain. He now found himself utterly helpless without any one to back htm.. Calcutta was then a veritable Golgotha, especially for a stranger to live in without the help of friends. It was at this time he introduced himself . to his good friend Babu Ram Tonoo Lahiry and his two younger brothers Babu Kally Churn and Sree Prosad who were then prosecuting their studies; in the Hindoo College. Babu Ram Tonoo was thenj a senior scholar, drawing a stipend from the Hindoqj College. Kind-hearted as these brothers were by nature, and perhaps from a Hindu feeling of love^ towards this poor neighbour whose ancestors were held in high esteem by them, Babu Ram Tonoq allowed him to remain in his lodgings. The bio-jj grapher who is himself a son-in-law of these Lahiry* brothers (Babu Sree Prosad's) has heard an anecdote! from his revered uncle-in-law, Babu Kally ChurnJ Lahiry, regarding the behaviour of poor Shyama* Churn as their gratuitous co-lodger. These brothers used to cook their own food and manage other- domestic business themselves, as they were too^ poor to pay for the luxury of having a cool^; and a servant under them. Poor Shyama Churn,i and these Lahiry brothers used to do all these busi-i ness by turns. Shyama Churn being then a young man of about 21, with a robust and an iron constU tution used to fetch water in large earthen pots] ( or Kalsts ), one on his head and the other on his] loins from the very tank in College Square, rouncj which, our University graduates and school-boys take! their evening constitutional in every fashionable style| Boys Kally Churn and Sree Prosad, being yet inj their teens, used to accompany Shyama Churn — the/ drawer of water — with smaller earthen pots to help him-. What he did afterwards we describe in the.