REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



Cooch Behar's Cup, and Dragon Messrs. Elkington's Vase. 

 Altogether'the racing was good and the purses equally divided. 

 On Friday the Planters played the Queen's at polo and beat 

 them badly. R. Hudson, Jack Barclay, Victor Hickley and San- 

 dilands represented the Blues ; Taylor, Glasgow, Cowper and 

 another officer, the Queen's. The Behar Wanderers also put a 

 cricket team in the field against the Queen's, which match 

 they pulled off with eighty odd runs to spare. Jack Campbell 

 played a strong innings in the match and, when out, he had 

 a total of 68 to his credit. Of other entertainments, there was 

 a musical evening given by the members of the regimental camp 

 round a bonfire on Sunday evening ; while the whole camp 

 was invited to a very prettily arranged programme of tableaux 

 vivants at " Earleswood " on Monday evening. The scenes re- 

 presented were : four taken from Robin Grey, two from the 

 poem " Home they brought her Warrior dead " and three from 

 " Where are you going my pretty Maid ?" They were all 

 very well rendered, especially the one where the widow was 

 weeping over the body of her " warrior dead " ; singing and 

 music accompanied each scene from behind the stage. On 

 Tuesday afternoon, a little gymkhana was held ; it included a 

 race for all ponies bought in the Fair, an Eka race, Gyla race 

 and a jumping competition. The pony race for Messrs. 

 Framjee and Co.'s Cup, was won by a pony belonging to Cap- 

 tain Vansittart, with ease. 



The native fair was dirty and crowded as it always is ; 

 the ponies were as numerous as ever, but in class somewhat 

 below the average. Until the very end, the fair kept very 

 healthy, but as it was breaking up cholera was reported to 

 have appeared. An elephant also caused a little diversion, as 

 it went mast, and getting into the crowd successfully placed 

 two men and a woman hors de combat. The European 

 tamasha was over by the nth, and what with wild 

 elephants and a cholera scare, the native portion quickly 



