THE
CANTUARIAN.
INDI AN
the exclamation-Evans (not 'eavens):
NORWOOD,
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LETTER .
10.
First I must shake hand s with my old fri en d J. 13. Scrive no r across the Bay for h is contrbutio n to yOllr last No. I ha lf expect the title of his essay wa s an ed itorial flo urish; for we hardly count the settlements as part of India, though see n in perspective from a Grange Study arm-chair, th ey wou ld appea r to be a ll one thi ng . Howeve r th e hon our was clone to us In dians ; so [ don't co mplain . We welcome th e three 0 K. S. mentioned in your last number, Matheson, Strahan ancl Lilley, and hope to run across them so meti me ; but I hea r Matheson is posted to Ranikh et, which is, I believe. some 1500 m iles away from my ·qu arters. I fear I am ge.tting a bit o ut of date and I cannot well keep up with the pace of the modern ru sh-witn ess my e fforts to cross the Strand yesterday. So it will be mu ch better if Capt. R. L. Paris, R.E ., wi ll now take up the incandescent mantle an d inspire it with more gas. Paris, I leave it to YOll, expecti ng no trumps. Howeve r, one final flicke r. 1 was in Bombay before sailin g on leave. 1 saw a face in the drawing room of the Great Western H otel. It looked steadily a t A we ll me; I loo ked stead ily at it. rem embered kink in th e S.W. corner of the left cheek instin ctively drew fto m m ~
and the quiet rejoinde r, " Bullo, SmlLh." VIe had written and written, imagi n,'cI un!! imagined; but hadn' t met for 15 y{·(II ~ . Evans it was, W. H., though grey thnlC'il ml. Still hard at it, engineering J abfllJlIII . Our respective better halves \Veru HOWl drawn into the O.K.S. circle, ancl \Y O hud
what you might call an O.K.S.
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H . 1\1 . James writes to-day t) Il Hl from Assam, whe re he is sti ll I'lIIInlllH II T ea Estate . H e so und s pretly flL 111111 1 hi s lOne, and med itates rc ti ro mllll In 15 years with a vi ew 1 fan 'Y W UI IIII matches on the Beverl ey . 11 0 tal klil tt j JIll O.K.S., viz.: Bremner, who is shtllll)' II I
join his es tate at Sh umsternagar.
Another of our fraternity,
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W. A. J. Milne r, has re ntl y H 111,·,1 II Vandiperyar, S. Indja, wher till' t nil. I berries come from .
It is very jolly to co m hfl ' k II lId 111,,1 so many old friends so full or h VI1 ' V" 111111 abandon" to say nothing Of v III IIII'I vigour. Also to se th u ('lint,,,,,,,;,,
heroes of the foo tball and prlt 1 ktll II, "' in th e flesh, whom on hM (:)" nll /111 IIU, " in th e spirit.
Not no plllllKllI1I
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bet ween a drive of A. :, 1 " I\l kl~ lilill 1111 boundary, nor to r lilt ! 1I 00u till "~I second ball. Bul of CO III K!' lIB Ihlllllllill I proceeding there i ~ How l "., 11111' '" see 1 have be II ..• , •• hlll I III plll t.'11 II No doubt my .. f(l tlltl llWIII 1t 'I\! III School one chan e of wllllliliN