CHAPTER XIX. 



DEHRA IN 1878— ALLAHABAD— "ROARING" — THE 22ND 

 REGIMENT — VESPER — DOLLY VARDEN — SHOEING — 

 LUCKNOW IN 1879— FISHERMAN— THE STAFF CORPS. 



After staying nine or ten months at Cachar, I left it, 

 on two months' leave, to go to Dehra Doon, in high 

 spirits at escaping from the dull monotony of this out- 

 of-the-way station. I had a pleasant trip of a (e\v days 

 down the river to Dacca, and then went on to Tirhoot 

 to stay with Mr. Webb at Birowlee. As Mr. Studd, the 

 owner of the factory, had ordered my friend to give up 

 racing, probably on account of his own not altogether 

 satisfactory connection with it, Mr. Webb was obliged to 

 console himself by riding his clever country-bred mare 

 Vesper, once a day, around a stiff steeplechase course he 

 had constructed near his house. He was delighted to 

 allow me to take the mare up to Dehra Doon, on 

 condition that I should run her under my own name. 



