Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-28
Bringing a Dead Man to Life.
An Adventure Ia nengai.
BY DAVID keR.
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1--WE heard people say said MIR. 7 49,.
as we were sitting after dinner ON The
spacious vefaOds OF Watson'e hotel AZ
Bombay, watching the moon rise over tho
clustering palm trees OF Malabar nm.
"thas an kngltshmon can't be twenty.four
hours IN India without gettlnw into a
scfape. didn't begin quite so early as
that, but ! made up for ID hy petting into
a pretty ugly mess when did begin, for
my hrst scrape was being tried for muir.
dori'
"lndcodYN cried |, somewhat taken
aback for such a confession was cor.
tainly rather startling from the lips of a
| quiet, middlc-aged, well-tO-do merchant.
who was proyerbialy one OF the most
respectable men In British india.
"a true bill, sir, though you seem To be
doubtful about IL. can wen assure YOU
that II wasn't very enjoyable experience
at the times but, anyhow, lt served rs my
! first introduction 10 ono OF tho best fol.
lows ever met--poor Gen, Campbon.n
| "WhaU General Iohu,' ms we used 70
call himSh asked | "the man who did
such wonderful things In the first KaAr
war, and Put down human sacrifice
among the khords OF Ofissa3u
THAT'S the maui did you know hlmgn
81 should think did I Shan't forget
him In hurry how he once took up n
char with man sitting In It, and set IL
IN the middle of the table as easily as n
II were plato OF bisouits,r
| ayes, he was a tremendously strong fel.
low | remember myself seeing him
write his name on the wall OF the mess.
room AZ Ramgunj with, daren't say
how many, iron weights hanging upon
his little finger. But was going 70 tell
| you how first met lnm, You see, when
| | came out here for the ilrst time was
| quite crazy about hunting and shooting,
as all youngsters are aud nothing would
serve me but must 90 up into Bengal and
shoot royal Bengal tiger.
III you want TO have crack at the
| big game, said one of the officers Of
the 18th Native Infantry, al whose mess
dned on my way through l.ulluipur, you
couldn't have better man than jack
Campbell OF the 18th. HE'S one Of the
greatest shikaris (spostsmen) IN ali India,
4 aud he happens 10 be IN command al
NawUbabad, Just In the very district
where you're going You've heard Of
him, OF course
~ was forced 20 confess that hadn't
"'Neyer heard OF Jack Campbell
Wen, by Joyc, that beats all Why, hos
the man who caught The theft
"'lhe thief echoed well, you're
lucky II you've only one thief Ia all In
dlali
''At that they oil began laughing Ike
mad, as II made the finest Joke In the
world, although for my part couldn't
see anything TO laugh at, Then the junior
captain said
"'Well, II you don't know the story
-, 4 a.. tst A
10 turn up at every mess that you dine at
IN Bengal. IT'S quite the stock story Of
the season. Some things were stolen
one night In the barracks at Nawababad,
don't you know, and it was az clear az
daylight that whoever did IL must have
been one OF those inside So Campbell
paiaded all his aepoys the first thing
next morning, aud told them that Brahma
had shown him In dream how TO detect
the thicfi and then be- gave each Of them
bamboo CHIP and ordered them 10 fic
| past him ia line and give up their chips
one by one, telling them that tbe thief,
| do what he might, would be cure 70
| have the longest. Two companies had
| gone by when jack suddenly co,larod
one OF the men, calling out TINT lac was
the thief, and the fellow NJ once con.
! fessud that he was, So after that, M YOU
may think, the natives reverenced old
Jack as II he had been Brahma himself
But how on earth did ha manage
lit2
mDon't you soc? The chips were MI
4 the same length, and the thief, 10 make
sure Of not having tho longest, had bitten
| piece off y
! IAN this, of course, made me doubly
eager 10 see this wonderful fnnn; but I
! hadn't got far into Bengal when | heard
\ that he bad been transferred from Nnwa-
/ ballad 10 some other station, the name Of
which couldn't find ont THIS seemed
| % knock 90 the head all my hopes Of
meeting with hifn but was fatod to be
| introduced 10 him much sooner than
expected, and IN very melo-nranlaiic
! way
/ ~ headed for the upland country along
the skirts Of The Illmainya a. d good place
| for biz game, for those parts being tliinly
pcopied, the tigers have It Ml their own
way You've Dcen up there yourself. and
SO you can eueas what q time had 10 the
villages With the native boEgarsi aud AZ
4 last met one who was too much for me
altogether He was one Of those wretched
/ FakirsP whom the natives think 80 holy
4 they certainly have the 'oder u HaDctlty
about them pretty strong, aud
/ he came munping and whining
I after me with wooden bowl
! ia Of scraps, the very smell OF which WIS
enough ~ knock horse down, Then,
/ when wouldn't give him anything he.
( began 20 abuse me fas these fellows
always do, Announcing that my grand
mamma had eloped With a gorilla, that
my mother had had a crosslng.swcepcr
! Tor sweetheart, and that my wife who,
I by the way, didn't exist then--was well
kuoYn 20 have run away with half.caste
cook.
cat last felt as II I'd had just about
enough Of II, 40 ! turged round and gave
/ him 'oBc Ia the eyc'j Shereupon, 10 and
behold 70 my utter amazcnent aud hor-
rOr, he fell down dead on the spot, while
\ all the iabble Of the village Instantly came
rushing up yelling 'marderl'
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