COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 269 



Rosie was married to Colonel Burn in December, 

 1892. They went to India for their honeymoon. 

 His old regiment, the i8th Hussars, was at Umballa, 

 and they went to stay with them. 



She wrote the following account of her tour : 



" RAILWAY HOTEL, CAWNPORE, 

 " ijth February, 1893. 



" I have not written to you for an age, and we 

 never get any letters by any chance as we are always 

 on the move. We have been having a lovely time 

 since I wrote last from Umballa. I forget if I told 

 you about my jackal hunt. It was such fun. I went 

 out really (on an Arab pony lent me by a kind man 

 in the i8th) for a paper-chase, which is the nearest 

 they can get to a hunt in those stations ; but as it fell 

 through, I went off with the Bobbery pack, which 

 I descried in the distance about four couple of 

 terriers, a decayed foxhound, and one overgrown 

 beagle. 



' Two of the 1 8th became fired with emulation 

 and came too. The whip was a native mounted on 

 a half-starved grey pony, and dressed in bare legs, 

 white cotton flowing drawers, a long black coat, and 

 on his head a purple velvet ' pork-pie ' trimmed with 

 gold embroidery ; he also blew a horn. I enjoyed 

 my hunt and galloped just behind the one foxhound 

 all the time, as he was the only hound who ever 

 threw his tongue at all, and it sounded like business. 

 We finally killed a jackal, after running over awful 

 ground for about three miles. I was so delighted I 



