REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. l8i 



common sense, a quality which has always characterised all 

 Mr. D. B. Allen's utterances, and if owners could only be 

 induced to act up to it, they would have no cause to complain 

 that it is impossible to back their horses. Owners must be 

 content with small profits at small meetings. Mr. D. B. Allen's 

 speech ought to have been inscribed in letters of gold and hung 

 up for guidance of all attending lotteries. This meeting was 

 responsible for the future of four very popular members of the 

 district, for Miss Ayres elected to be guided in double harness 

 by Mr. Sproggins Mackenzie and Miss Richardson carried 

 by storm the heart of the Adonis of the district, once the best 

 looking Etonian of his year, Mr. Edward Hall of the Mozuffer- 

 pore Bar. These engagements were whispered about towards 

 the end of the meeting, and the marriages came off during 

 the ensuring year at Chupra and Mozufferpore. Since then 

 Mr. and Mrs. Hall have done much for Mozufferpore, for 

 years Mrs. Hall has managed the ball suppers economically 

 and well, and this is nowadays no light task; while the new 

 ball-room and other improvements are mainly due to the 

 interest taken in the Station Club by Mr. Hall and his energy 

 in obtaining subscriptions. More power to your elbow, Sam- 

 my. Just as it was with her large-hearted mother, so is it 

 with Mrs. Hall ; she works unselfishly and indefatigably for 

 the public weal, but her real worth will only be honestly 

 acknowledged when she has left the district, and then when 

 it will be impossible to find an equally devoted slave to others, 

 she will be accorded that recognition which ought in common 

 gratitude to have been yearly offered her while with us. 



Cholera made its appearance in the European Camp during 

 the meet and carried off three or four servants and one of the 

 Durbangah Band. The matter was kept very quiet, so that 

 only a few were any the wiser, and certainly no one was any the 

 worse, except, of course, those unfortunates chiefly concerned. 

 Luckily the scourge did not spread to the native part of the fair. 



