2l8 REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



The Calcutta visitors punted freely, but did not take away 

 much 'oof, the principal winners being Captains Scales and 

 Lee-Warner. Mr. Fenton was the happy possessor of the 

 handsome Trades' Cup. Mrs. Bourdillon took great pains to 

 have the ball-room prettily decorated each night, and, thanks 

 to Messrs. Ellis, Longmuir and Geordie Graham, the course 

 and polo grounds were in excellent order. Cricket, polo, gym- 

 khanas and tennis all buzzed freely, while the evening reunious 

 at the various camps and capital singing, made the meeting 

 pass most enjoyably. 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 

 YEAR 1891. 



Early in 1891 it seemed as if the Stewards would have 

 to look about for a new Secretary as Harry Abbott had left 

 Jaintpore and gone to Calcutta to look after the interests of his 

 paper, resigning ere doing so the Secretaryships of both Sone- 

 pore and Mozufferpore. Two of the Stewards also retired to 

 England Mr. George Llewhellin of Durbangah and Mr. E. A. 

 Mackintosh of Chupra. The latter had sold his good little fac- 

 tory, Rampore, to Glass Vincent, a son of Mr. Frank Vincent, 

 who had done Sonepore such yeoman service in its earlier 

 years. Like household words had been the names of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Albert Mangles as staunch patrons of Sonepore for 

 many long days, and sad indeed were all Beharites to hear 

 from England that death had claimed their dear old friend. The 

 I.P.G. wrote thusly: 



" With very deep grief we heard by last mail of the sad 

 death of one whose cheery voice and good-natured face was 

 well known in Behar. Albert Champion Mangles was a man 

 whom to know was to like thoroughly; generous to a fault, hos^- 

 pitable to excess, and kind-hearted to a degree, he was one of 

 the most popular Civilians who ever joined the Indian Service* 

 The old Haileybury lot were mostly good fellows but the 



