36 A Sportswoman in India 



of 58,000 a year, on which he lived for many years 

 as an English country gentleman in Norfolk. 



Lahore is interesting as having been for so long 

 the home of Rudyard Kipling. One can picture his 

 going over to the cantonments at Mian Mir and 

 learning the ways of Private Thomas Atkins as no 

 other man on the face of this earth knows them. As 

 head of the School of Art, he designed the Law Courts 

 great, airy, massive buildings, full of rooms. 



Before leaving Mian Mir we went for a delightful 

 moonlight picnic at the famous Shalimar Gardens, which 

 Shah Jehan (the builder of the Taj) considered "the 

 home of his emotions." Driving there in the twilight, 

 the gaudy sun having long disappeared, and a cool 

 freshness having begun to move the hot air, we strolled 

 through the dark, shady mango-trees, by the broad 

 stone tanks full of water, with fountains playing on 

 every side. The air was full of scents and silences. 

 Shah Jehan was evidently a man of perception. Later 

 on a band played, and we dined, a party of seventy, 

 in one of the great open stone halls overlooking the 

 gleaming, moonlit water. 



