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friend and his wife often think of the stirring scenes 

 they passed through, and the happy days they spent in 

 India. Mrs, Turnbull rides still the handsome Arab 

 horse, Cuckoo, she brought back with her from Calcutta, 

 and has many a feathered pet in her aviary to remind 

 her of the glorious East. They call their pretty place, 

 which is hard by the green of a lovely, old-fashioned 

 village in Sussex, the " Hermitage," in memory of their 

 gallant Arab, and of the old bungalow at Alipore. 



When speaking of my friend, I use the rank by which 

 he was known to us all in India, rather than the more 

 distinguished one he now holds. 



He joined the 7th Bengal Light Cavalry in 1837, 

 and soon obtained the adjutancy of that regiment. He 

 served through the Sindh campaign under Sir Charles 

 Napier in 1844 and 1845 ; and acted as Quartermaster- 

 General to Sir H. Wheeler's force through the Punjab 

 War, in which he gallantly saved the famous Hodson's 

 life. This great cavalry leader, as Lord Ulick Browne 

 describes, " had flogged some camp followers of a sepoy 

 regiment, nearly a whole company of which rushed with 

 fixed bayonets on five or six of his troopers, killed them, 

 and then pursued Hodson with the loudly avowed object 

 of taking his life also. At this juncture. Colonel Turn- 



