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were being held at Lucknow on' the next day's events. 

 Immediately after parade on the following morning, I 

 started for Lucknow and found, to my horror, when I 

 arrived there, that, while I had been spending my 

 evening quietly in Cawnpore, my friend, having taken 

 the advice of some of the would-be-knowing ones, 

 had gone in recklessly to back Hawkestone, who had 

 fetched high prices in the lotteries. Besides that, he 

 had various other plunges on equally hopeless chances. 

 I managed to get a little on Caliph, but not enough to 

 save ourselves, and had the barren satisfaction of seeing 

 the justness of my opinion vindicated by the gallant 

 little Galloway, magnificently ridden by Dignum, winning 

 one of the finest races I have ever seen from John Wheal 

 on Acrobat ; while Hawkestone was beaten off quite fifty 

 yards. I felt so " broke " that a meeting which ought to 

 have been a brilliant success had turned out a disaster 

 to us, that I sent off Captain Maxwell's horses to Dehra, 

 and thus ended my racing connection with him. I had 

 further cause for remembering that meeting. At the 

 settling, a man who owed me Rs. 750 ever the races, 

 asked mc to give him Rs. 250 as he was short of ready 

 cash, and that he would give me a cheque for the 

 Rs. 1000 on Calcutta. I handed over the money and have 



