The Chota Paperchase Cup which was run for 

 yesterday morning resulted in a pretty close finish between 

 Red Gauntlet and Gill, of which the former had a good bit 

 the best at the finish, the rest nowhere. Regarding the 

 proceedings of the other competitors the kindest thing I can 

 do is to draw the veil of silence. If this year may be taken 

 as any criterion, a Chota Paperchase Cup for " Asiatics " 

 is a mistake. 



1883. 



Let us hang up our spurs and whips and weep, for the 

 paperchasing season has passed away, and the hot weather 

 is upon us. No less than sixteen times have the worthy 

 peasantry of Ballygunge been disturbed in their rural 

 pursuits, by a long stream of frantic horsemen galloping 

 wildly through their peaceful haunts, while the well-known 

 sight of a mud-bespattered sportsman, limping painfully 

 homewards, made them ponder in their gentle minds on 

 the eccentric notions of enjoyment entertained by the 

 sahib log. We are sure everybody is very grateful to the 

 Honorary Secretary for the trouble he has taken. We 

 never remember courses to have been so well laid out or 

 fences better made. When Mr. Latham went home, it was 

 rumoured that the paperchases would deteriorate. Rumour 

 luckily proved a false prophet, and under the new manage- 

 ment we have enjoyed as good, if not better, sport than 

 the most sanguine anticipated. 



We had whispered softly in our servant's ear on 

 Friday night : — " When you're waking, call me early, call 

 me early, bearer dear." His idea of earliness turned out 

 to be the middle of the night. These little errors on his 

 part do not now anger us, they used to, as being an 

 intelligent native, we think that under the proposed new 

 regulation he stands a capital chance of a judgeship. We 

 also treat our punkha-wallahs with great gentleness, as 

 the thought has struck us that though at present we may 

 rebuke them for their tardiness in agitating the punka 

 rope, they may shortly be in a position to agitate us at the 

 end of a very difterent sort of rope. We therefore now 

 talk to each other like dear brothers. [This was written in 

 the time of the Ilbert Bill. Ed.\ 



The sights that met us on the road to Ballygunge 

 were very interesting. Every available vehicle appeared 



