Pig'Sticking 1 1 



showed the result of banishing sunlight for a couple 

 and a half hours, only totally banishing it for two 

 minutes. 



Buxar did not tempt us to linger, for having so 

 lately left England, we felt even that January heat. 

 The Punjab would be much cooler. Thirty-two hours 

 training saw us arrived at Lahore station, thence driving 

 out to Mian Mir, the military station, where we stayed 

 with General Sir George Wolseley, then officiating in 

 the Punjab command vice Sir William Lockhart. 



The pig-sticking season was by this time in full 

 swing ; and our whole party from Mian Mir was in- 

 vited to stay in one of the few remaining native states 

 by H.H. Maharajah Sir Jagatjit Sing Bahadur, K. C.S.I. 



It was a short journey from Lahore, and at 

 the station, which was five miles' drive from 

 Kapurthalah, we were met by landaus, and bullock 

 carts for our luggage. The Maharajah put us up 

 at his Guest House, a luxurious bungalow built in 

 charming gardens, next the Palace. It was very 

 French in its decorations, and a trifle over-gilded 

 perhaps ; but after the somewhat rough-and-ready 

 Punjab arrangements, that was a pardonable sin. 

 The shady portico over the hall door was full of 

 ferns and flowers, and the gardens afforded officious 

 mails (gardeners) ample opportunities of pressing 

 gorgeous buttonholes on us whenever we came 

 out. A French chef fed us, and our own personal 

 servants waited on us. 



Soon after we arrived, a State call was paid upon 



