wan eight a day i to bim � i to morrow thb daughter of the regiment me to you but by the ould who is now in glory you don t give me your to ask at the flesh off yer bones a brass to night tis a to b ny she s been single so long i i was i goin to let a three year ould to me my will bein set no i an asked her he s a good is wan these days he ll get into the com an a his s so i provided for ould s daughter an now you go along an dance her and i did i felt a respect for miss and i went to her wedding later on perhaps i will tell you about that one of these days the pride of his in the pride of his stopped m the straight when the race was his own t look at him cutting it� cur to the bone ask ere the be and what did he carry and how was he ridden maybe they used him too much at the start maybe fate s weight are breaking his heart s when i was telling you of the joke that the worm played off on the senior i promised a somewhat similar tale but with all the jest left out this is that tale was in his early early neither by landlady s daughter nor cook but by a girl so nearly of his own caste that only a woman could have said she was just the least little bit in the world below it this happened a month before he came out to india and five days after his one birthday the girl was nineteen � six years older than in the things of this world that is to say � and for the time twice as foolish as he excepting always falling off a horse there is nothing more easy than marriage before the the ceremony costs less than fifty shillings and is remarkably like walking into a shop after the of residence have been put in four minutes will cover the rest of the proceedings � and all then the the over the names and says grimly with his pen between his teeth � now you re m n and wife and the couple in the pride of his youth walk out into the street feeling as if something were horribly somewhere but that ceremony holds and can drag a man to his just as thoroughly as the long as ye both shall curse from the altar rails with the behind and the voice that breathed o er lifting the roof ofl in this manner was and he considered it vastly fine for he had received an appointment in india which carried a magnificent salary from the home point of view the marriage was to be kept secret for a year then mrs was to come out and the rest of life was to be a glorious golden mist that was how they it under the road station lamps and after one short month came and steaming out to his new life and the girl crying in a thirty shillings a week bed and living room in a back street off square near the but the country that came to was a hard land where men of twenty one were reckoned very small boys indeed and life was expensive tlie salary that loomed so large six thousand miles away did not go far particularly when divided it by two and more than the fair half at i to square one hundred and thirty five out of three hundred and thirty is not much to live on but it was absurd to suppose that mrs could exist forever on the � held back by from his allowance saw this and at once always remembering that rs were to be paid twelve months later for a passage out for a lady when you add to these trifling details the natural instincts of a boy beginning a new life in a new country and longing to go about and enjoy himself and the necessity for with strange tn the pride of his youth work � which properly speaking should take up a boy s attention � you will see that started he saw it himself for a breath or two but he did not guess the full beauty of his future as the hot weather began the settled on him and ate into his flesh first would come big crossed seven sheet letters � from his wife telling him how she longed to see him and what a heaven upon earth would be their property when they met then some boy of the wherein lodged would pound on the door of his bare little room and tell him to come out to look at a pony � the very thing to suit him could not afford he had to explain this could not afford living in the modest as it was he had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day he kept house on a green oil cloth table cover one chair one one photograph one tooth glass very strong and thick a seven and by contract at thirty seven a month which last item was he had no for a costs fifteen a month but he slept on the roof of the office with all his wife s letters under his pillow now and again he was asked out to dinner where he got both a and au drink but this was seldom for people objected to a boy who had evidently the instincts of a scotch and who lived in such a nasty fashion could not to any amusement so he found no amusement except the pleasure of turning over his bank book and reading what it 