REMINISCENCES OF SONEPQRE. 



pair, after the ceremeony, accompanied by their friends, 

 were sumptuously banquetted at the hospitable house of Mr. 

 Mangles, alas too soon to be lost to Behar. 



There is an amusing anecdote about Mr. Apperley, which 

 it would be unfair to that humorous sportsman to leave out of 

 these chronicles. At one of the balls, Apples took the lady he 

 had been dancing with to the long corridor outside the supper 

 room, to get some fresh air ; she had never been to Sonepore 

 before, and asked " What place is this ? " " Oh," said Apples 

 "this is ' Kissy ka jugger.' ' She knew a little Hindostanee, 

 and jumped up, ablaze with indignation, " How dare you insult 

 me, Sir," she said. " What have I done," asked Apples. " It 

 isn't what you've done, it's what you said." " Well I'm 

 blessed," answered Apples, " this comes of your ignorance of 

 the language. I didn't mean what you thought I did. ' Kissy ka 

 jugger' means anybody's place, everyone is allowed to come 

 here." The lady was obliged to accept the explanation, but 

 the story leaked out, and the corridor has been known as 

 " Kissy ka jugger " ever since. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



YEAR 1883. 



But for 1883 in spite of Harry's boast, things looked worse 

 than ever. The only entries were from Messrs. Cresswell 

 and the Jodhpore Princes. Harry Abbott had sold his share 

 of the stable to his partners, and went in April, for his first 

 trip home, since he came out in 1862. Jimmy McLeod had 

 gone on a visit to Australia, and did not return till too late to 

 prepare his horses for Sonepore. The Messrs. Apcar had now 

 taken to send their horses regularly to Bangalore to train, and 

 only a few summered at Jaintpore, and when Harry got back at 

 the end of June, it was only to find there was little or no chance 

 of a meeting. The Calcutta Exhibition was on, and localites 

 could not afford the double expense of a Sonepore camp and a 



