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that delightful hill station, Mussoorie,for the hot months 

 are acquainted with Mr. Ouajjoo, the prosperous and 

 obliging livery-stable keeper, who hires out sure-footed 

 ponies at the rate of four rupees a day. When I first 

 knew him he was spare and dapper, as he had not given 

 himself up to the delights of sweetmeats and clarified 

 butter, as is the custom of the well-to-do Aryan, Lord 

 Marcus Beresford had not then taken to steeplechase 

 riding, for that was long before the Chimney Sweep 

 days. Captain Joy, although he had been initiated into 

 Indian racing at Secunderabad, when he was in the 

 1 8th Royal Irish, had not acquired that deep insight 

 into training which he subsequently obtained at French 

 Furze on the Curragh, so did not despise the assistance 

 of the ex-shoeing-smith Quajjoo, who rode and helped 

 to train the many horses belonging to "The Queen's 

 Own." 



I was so much knocked up by the first hot weather 

 I spent at Meean Meer that I had to get three months* 

 sick leave to recruit my health in the hills. On my way 

 to Mussoorie I stayed at Umballa to see the October 

 Meeting of 1868, at which Lord Huntly, Captain Joy, 

 Colonel Trench, the Hon. Walter Harbord, Captains 

 Papillon, Maxwell, Soames, and Newbolt, Mr. Har- 



