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Owing to the neglect of a trustee, what means he had inherited were lost, and he was in his early days very poor. Articled to a lawyer in London, he had no taste for law, which he soon exchanged for journalism, and at 21 he was writing poetry for magazines, his first printed work, a poem on the Battle of Chillianwallah, appearing in Chambers's Journal. Two years later he pub.
I wish my father had been there." "Why?" "He'd have cured him. There's nobody like him for wounds. But, I say, Chillian what's its name?" "Chillianwallah," I said. "Why, what a game! That's where old Lomax was. I remember now." "Is Lomax one of the boys," I asked wonderingly. "Yah! no. You saw him last night, when you came in the fly.
"Be it what it may we'll face it as British soldiers should. D'ye remember at Chillianwallah, when you had to run from your guns to our square, and the Sikh horse came thundering down on our bayonets? We didn't flinch then, and we won't flinch now. It seems to me that I feel better than I have done for years. It was the uncertainty that was killing me."
He had served with distinction in the Sikh war; and had seen fighting on a grand scale in the battles of Sobraon and Chillianwallah. Later, the restless genius of travel had taken hold on him, leading him far eastward into China, and northward across the Himalayan snows. He had dwelt among strange peoples and looked on strange gods.
The tremendous heat of the country during the summer terribly thinned the ranks of his forces, and he lost over 400 men in eighteen months. He himself was struck down by sunstroke and fever; but, owing probably to his temperate and careful habits, he soon recovered. After the Chinese war, Colin Campbell was busy in India, and at Chillianwallah was wounded in the arm.
"Yes, yes," I said eagerly, for I was as excited as my companion, whose idea of revenge, now it was explained, seemed to me to be glorious. "Well, it is tempting," said the sergeant thoughtfully. "And you'll teach us?" "And his father fought at Chillianwallah! Yes, it is tempting. You ought to be able to take your own part if big cowards tackle you." "Yes, Lom. Then do teach us." "No.
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