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from "Benares and Lucknow, inlaid ware from Agra, and jewel- 

 lery frpm Delhi. Besides these, vendors of furs, wicker work 

 chairs and tables, canaries and fruit, all were there. Wonder- 

 ful Indian jugglers with improvised entertainments, and cobras 

 and mongooses, and a clever company of performing birds, 

 who ^threaded beads, told numbers, played cards, loaded and 1 

 fired real cannons, and flew at word of command to any ; 

 member of the audience pointed out> and offered a pouncet 

 box of sweet scent for a smell. Mr. Worby, the Mozufferpore 

 tailor, opened a branch establishment for receiving orders, and 

 fixing up the members of the Behar Light Horse creditably as 

 lady killers at the balls ; and Mr. Aldham from Fry and Rahn's 

 was there to take all their pictures. The one accident of the 

 meeting occurred to Sergeant Haslem who, while riding a horse 

 of Mr. Drake's, was thrown by the animal putting his foot in 

 a hole and coming down heavily. Sergeant Haslem unfor- 

 tunately broke his collar-bone, which was set shortly afterwards 

 by Dr. Mulvaney. 



It was most most regrettable that Mr. Gwatkin Williams 

 was attacked with fever during the meeting, and he was 

 greatly missed the last two days, it was with evident difficulty 

 he dragged himself to the races on the second day. Fired by 

 Harry Abbott's admirable speech in proposing at supper on 

 the Qth the health of Jimmy McLeod, the King of Chumparun, 

 the members of the Chupra elocutionary class held a seance 

 after breakfast the following day, in the Sitalpore Camp, for 

 the purpose of proposing healths and returning thanks for the' 

 same. All the speeches were much aidmired ; and though the 

 "guileless gillie " was not present to increase the favourable 

 impression made on a former occasion, the ladies followed his 

 advice and improvised a gallery whence, as is the habit in 

 Calcutta on St. Andrew's day, they might listen to the orations, 

 it be said that Harry Abbott in proposing the health of a 

 bride and bridegroom was vociferously applauded, or 



