CHAPTER XX. 



"THE BUFFS" — MEERUT — REFORMATION — MR. MAC- 

 DOUGALL — BISMILLAH — MR. ANDERSON'S HORSES- 

 SPEECHLESS— RAMPORE BEAULEAH RACES, 1 879. 



In the spring of 1879 I effected an exchange from the 

 Bengal Staff Corps into " The Buffs," as I wanted to 

 leave the service and return to England, as I was losing 

 my health in India, and could not afford to live comfort- 

 ably in the service in the " old country." As I had 

 spent so much of my time on leave and furlough, I 

 should not have got, had I remained in the Staff Corps,, 

 a captain's pension for many years ; though, by exchang- 

 ing back arain into the Home Service, I was enabled to 

 obtain a good bonus on retiring. In doing this I 

 certainly "scored off" Government, which soon after- 

 wards issued orders that exchanges were not to be 

 permitted between Captains of the Staff Corps and 

 Home Service. 



