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he, springing from his seat ; "bring me an adjutant who 

 doesn't jump." Next day Jack turned up repentant in 

 sph'nts and bandages, and promised to sin no more. 

 Barring an occasional fall, which Dr. Tippetts con- 

 siderately entered as " intermittent fever," he kept 

 pretty straight up to his promotion, which he got after 

 about seventeen years' service ; for the 5th Fusiliers 

 was one of those grand old regiments into which, if a 

 man of the right sort once got, he made it his home 

 and his world for the best years of his life. 



In 1869 the Gordon Highlanders, who were stationed 

 at Jullundur, had a strong stable, presided over by 

 Captains Maxwell, Papillon, and McGregor. They 

 owned the aptly named Ranelagh — out of Princess 

 by Peeping Tom — Caliph, Objection, the Black Waler 

 chaser. Gamecock, Hooshiari Pissoo, Crazy Jane, Jesuit, 

 and others. Captain Papillon was the Captain Machell 

 of the confederacy, although he sometimes made a 

 mistake. He was a good and determined performer 

 both on the flat and across country. 



Crazy Jane was a smart country-bred pony of the 

 whipcord and fiddle-string type. One evening, after 

 a cricket match at Umballa, when Captain Papillon, 

 Mr. Beadon, and several others who were fond of racing^ 



