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Nonsense,” said lectured, so can you.”

L can't do ity T otell youo o go on, some- body, and say I'm ill. ‘The money will L returned !’

• Just then Deane came up with a bumper

of champagne. 1 couldn’t drink it. 1 peeped through the doorway again, when suddenly T was scized and run on to the plat- form by Thackeray and Co. So I unwillingly made my first appearance as a lecturer in rather an undignificd manner,

“1ovisited many towns in Fngland, Scot- land, and Ireland, and made money by my tour, but 1t was distasteful to me s I owas elad when my engagements were over, and have never lectured since, though often asked to do so. When the Indian Mutiny broke out [ was abroad, but I was sent for, and after a short holiday, I was asked by Declane very urgently to go out and join the army preparing to relieve Lucknow, under Colin Campbell. That was in 1857, The very day I arrived at Calcutta, the news came that Havclock was dead, and that Colin Campbell had got the garrison and the women and children out ol Lucknow, bhut that he was unable to take the place. 1 went up country to jom Sir Colin Camp- bell’'s headquarters at Cawnpore, with Pat Stewart.

o Colin sard to me: “Now, Mr. Russell, youre welcome. You have sceen something of war. I am going to tell you ceverything. But only on one condition,

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That when dining with headquarters mess yvou don’t blab what you hear. 'There arc native servants behind every chair watching, and what 1s said inside the tent is known out- side five minutes afterwards. T want to show you my plans for attack on Lucknow. Go with Coloncl Napier. He will let you see what we are going to do.” The officer to whom Sir Colin introduced me, afterwards Iield - Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala, took me across to his tent. “ Now,” said hee “here are our plans ask me anvthing vou please. Mind D You must keep oy purdah down.’

" Now, though T had not bheen Tong i India I knew that a * purdah " meant a curtain. [ rose and let down the flap over the cntrance ol the tent, shutting out all the light.

• Napier smiled.

“*No, no,” he eried, “what T mean is, you must keep my plans to yourself !

Dr. Russell was present at the sicge of Lucknow, and also scerved in the campaigns of Oude, Rohilecund, ete. Whilst on one of the many night marches Sir Colin made in India, he received a kick from a horse which nearly led to the loss of his life.

A horse broke loose and commenced to attack my little stallion,” he saad. 1 went to 1ts assistance, when the brute, which belonged to Donald Stewart, an Indian officer on the staff, Tet fly at me, catching me on my right thigh. The kick bent the scabbard of a sword 1 was wearing, and fairly drove it into