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the palm. The Chumparun men maintain that, as. 

 compared with the size of Tirhoot and Chupra, their 

 district shows more sport. They were the first to in- 

 troduce polo into the indigo country. Their team won 

 the Three Districts Polo Challenge Cup in 1877, on the 

 only occasion the match was arranged. They have 

 grounds for this game at almost every factory, as well 

 as in the two stations — Segowlee and Mootihari ; while 

 in the Bcttiah division they have polo regularly, once,, 

 and sometimes twice, a week, the whole \-ear round. 

 They play by turns at the different factories, alway.'i 

 dining and sleeping wherever the)- play, and having a 

 spin across countr)- next morning before they separate, 

 sometimes after a pig or wolf. The same hospitality 

 and good fellowship which exists in Tirhoot is to be 

 found everywhere in Chumparun. This district has 

 brought out some grand horses, as witness, Fishcrboy,. 

 Finctte, Raven, Armadale, Fieldfare, Mercedes, Gcral- 

 dinc, Bluebell, and the chasers Dclphos, Brown Duchess,, 

 and Kilmorc. At the weekly polo meetings many 

 amusing incidents occur, although it is almost impos- 

 sible to give a fair idea of them by a mere written 

 description. On one occasion, after a very joll\- dinner 

 with the 2nd Bengal Cavalry at Segowlee, one of the 



