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the promotion of Kenny, an old chum of H.M.'s 

 84:th Regiment, who happened to be staying with 

 me at the time. " Five Minutes," my chef de 

 cuisine^ who was celebrated even on the Hills for 

 his attainments in the gastronomic art, on this 

 occasion had done more than sustain his repu- 

 tation. The standing Anglo-Indian dishes, a fatted 

 turkey stuffed with cachew nuts, Yorkshire ham, 

 and saddle of gram-fed mutton, were flanked by 

 boars' chops, snipe-trail pie, jugged hare, and 

 venison pasty, followed by curried trout, cabobbed 

 ortolans, woodcocks on toast, bison's marrow-bones, 

 and grey teal, all of which delicacies had been con- 

 tributed by some of the sturdy sportsmen then 

 gathered round the table. 



There is a kind of freemasonry amongst military 

 and naval men that does not exist in any other 

 class of society, and this "mystic tie" is most un- 

 doubtedly strengthened when they also happen to 

 be sportsmen. Among the guests was a Scotchman 

 belonging to the 3Tth Native Infantry, of the name 

 of Wedderburn, deservedly accounted one of the 

 best shots in the country. Above common height, 

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