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to shake off all effects or fear of my late 

 malady. Among other things, I joined a 

 cricket-club, principally composed of offi- 

 cers in the garrison this was the means 

 of my introduction to a new and wide 

 field of acquaintance; and then I partook 

 of, and entered with spirit into, all the 

 manly sports and pastimes then in vogue, 

 including cock-fighting and bull-baiting, 

 which had not then been abandoned. 



I also joined the Yeomanry Cavalry, at 

 that time commanded by a son of the 

 East India Company's agent at Ports- 

 mouth ; * and as I had the means of 

 mounting my principal clerk as one of 

 the troop, and my foreman in the stables 

 as a trumpeter, I was pretty well recom- 

 mended to the notice of the Colonel-com- 

 manding and the Adjutant, the latter being 

 an intimate friend of our family. These 

 avocations extended my acquaintance 

 among some of the most flourishing 



* John Lindegren, Esq. 

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