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"The river washes along the front of the old fort, and so protects it, but on the sides and behind there are uarded, of course, in the old quarter as well as in that which was actually held by our troops We were short-handed, with hardlyand to serve the guns It was iuard at every one of the innuuard-house in the e of one white e during certain hours of the night of a s Two Sikh troopers were placed underto fireat once froood two hundred paces away, however, and as the space betas cut up into a labyrinth of passages and corridors, I had great doubts as to whether they could arrive in time to be of any use in case of an actual attack

"Well, I was pretty proud at having this sahts I kept the watch withchaps, Maho-ainst us at Chilian-wallah They could talk English pretty well, but I could get little out of theht in their queer Sikh lingo Fordown on the broad, winding river and on the twinkling lights of the great city The beating of drums, the rattle of tomtoms, and the yells and howls of the rebels, drunk with opiuht of our dangerous neighbors across the streaht used to come round to all the posts, to ht ofrain It was dreary work standing in the gate-way hour after hour in such weather I tried again and again to makethe rounds passed, and broke for athat my companions would not be led into conversation, I took out my pipe, and laid down my musket to strike the match In an instant the two Sikhs were upon me One of them snatched my firelock up and levelled it at reat knife to e it into me if I moved a step