346 ARM'y APPOINTMENTS IN THE INDIAN SERVICE. 
12 o’clock on a December or January night, to pay a visit to 
a horse or cow some twelve or fourteen miles distant. The 
very thoughts of such an event make my poor old liver feel 
congestive. 
There is an error abroad that veterinary surgeons are 
better off in India than at home, but I hope to prove this a 
fallacy. It is true he is in receipt of a greater sum of 
money; but when \ve come to sho\v his expenses, the most 
fastidious will acknowledge the justness of what I say. 
I will give you the receipts and expenditures presently; 
what I want just now is to introduce “ Our Young Vet!^ He 
has just landed in the country, and expects to see his name 
in the Gazette ; he does not wait long; he is, perhaps, ordered 
to join and do duty with a troop or brigade of artillery, or 
regiment of light cavalry, under a senior member of his 
profession. Should the artillery be his destination^ he must 
provide himself with a complete undress uniform, suited to 
that branch of the service, and purchased at the presidency 
town at cent, per cent, over and above what it would cost in 
London; but as he came out uncertain as to what branch of 
the service he w'ould be attached, this could not be helped ; so 
the tailors are the gainers. 
Well, he has served six months under this senior—an 
antiquated gentleman, perhaps, who talks to you about his 
doings at College when it stood all alone in the green fields, 
and when Coleman was his pole-star; he calls all the medicines 
by their old names, and hates your new-fangled ones, and 
new ideas too. He applies for a Board of Examiners” to 
examine yon professionally. 
The Board generally consists of a President, Deputy 
Inspector-General of Hospitals—Doctors Curry, Rice. 
Members—Garrison Surgeon Mulligatawny; Surgeon 
Kebob, 27th Bamboo Rangers; Surgeon Pillow, 32nd Jungle 
Skirmishers; Veterinary Surgeon, Coleman Moorcroft Brown, 
Artillery. 
The day after the promulgation of this garrison order he 
finds himself in the presence of these hoary-headed gentle¬ 
men, sitting in solemn conclave. He is asked to take a 
chair, and naturally expects the venerable president to ask 
him to describe the minute anatomy of the eye or brain, but 
imagine his delight on hearing the board express their 
surprise at the absurdity of assembling men of a strange 
profession to examine and report upon the efficiency of a 
young veterinary surgeon. 
President, log .—“ Do you know’ anything about horses, 
Mulligataw’ny ?” Mulligatawny, who is a married man. 
