182 REMINISCENCES OF 



"We have the best of it now, and expect to see 

 the inside of Sevastopol very soon. I hope they will 

 send out some cavalry soon, as we are too weak to 

 gammon a trot even, and we have only fifty-two nags 

 left ; about the same in all light regiments, the heavies 

 a shade better in numbers. Our chief, Jack, won't 

 do at all in any way. I wish you would exchange 

 with him, only he would not do for the hounds either, 

 I suspect. He never moves out of his tent, lives 

 with the vet., Firth and Chamberlayne, and don't do 

 at all in the field. 



" Have you seen the Major ? (entre nous] is he 

 very seedy ? Jos, Percy, Jervis (much improved) 

 and young Goad are here all well. I am a respect- 

 able Major now, as you will have seen. I got the 

 paint-box at Newman's, Soho Square, , but think I 

 paid for it at the time. I cannot paint here, having 

 no table, as I have only the contents of my valise 

 all my traps left at Scutari. Give my love to Johnny 

 Madocks and Oakeley, and ask Madocks what 

 Brown means about a coat ? I was going to write 

 to him this post, but this will do for you both. 



" Brown says he ordered a coat for me, but I 

 have not got it yet. I am very much obliged to the 

 dear old boy, as it is just what is wanted. Tell him 

 I am as bald as he is, having lost all my hair from 

 fever I had. I can't keep quite well out here bad 

 place for one's guts. 



" We all spelt the run in Bell from Bosworth, 

 and much amused at the list of performances on the 

 occasion. 



