150 A GLIMPSE OF 



are jumbled up together without stops, commas, or any such friendly 

 clue to guide us to the place where each sentence commences, or 

 where it ends. 



When I read out the Queen's proclamation in Hindustani, before 

 several thousand natives, someone came up and expressed wonder 

 that I could read the Arabic character so fluently. But he ceased 

 to wonder when I showed him my manuscript, which I had carefully 

 prepared beforehand in the Roman character. 



Many years before, I had witnessed a painful exhibition which a 

 Foreign Secretary (long since dead) made, in reading out a native 

 document in the presence of the Governor-General and his staff. It 

 made such an impression on me at the time, that I took the hint, 

 and ever after, slyly changed the native hieroglyphics for something 

 easier, when I was called upon to read out a paper to the natives, or 

 in public. 



But, returning briefly to the East India College. Some time ago 

 I was invited to send reminiscences of my College life, in order to 

 swell a projected volume on Old Haileybary ; but somehow, 

 whenever I began turning over the subject in my mind, I kept 

 involuntarily repeating in the most exasperating way 



" The clock strikes One, supper is done, 

 And Sir Carnaby Jenks is full of his fun, 

 Singing, jolly companions every one." 



The celebrated Bishop of Oxford, who had a hand in abolishing 

 Haileybury, was at the Rectory here one day, during my vacation, 

 and drawing me aside, he asked in a stage whisper, " You are a very 

 fast set at Haileybury, are you not ? " 



" My Lord," I replied, " you will never get me to acknowledge 

 that we are slow.'" 



But singing was our forte, and the lines 



" Omnibus hoc vitiuin est cantoribus inter ainicos, 

 Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare ro;yati.'" * 



* This is a fault common to all singers, that amongst their friends they never are inclined to sing when they 

 are asked. Smart's Translation q/ " Horace." 



