On the march! What a time those who "served the Widdy"--by which disrespectful term, our revered Sovereign was _not_ known in those days--used to have before the continent of India had been intersected by the railroad! The absence of one's proper _quantum_ of rest, the forced marches over _kutcha_ (imperfectly made) bye-roads, the sudden changes of temperature, raids of the native thief, the troubles with "bobbery" camels, the still more exasperating behaviour of the _bail-wallahs_ (bullock-drivers), the awful responsibilities of the officer-on-baggage-guard, on active duty, often in the saddle for fifteen hours at a stretch, the absolutely necessary cattle-raids, by the roadside--all these things are well known to those who have undergone them, but are far too long "another story" to be related here. As for the food partaken of during a march with the regiment, the bill-of-fare differed but little from that of the cantonments; but the officer who spent a brief holiday in a shooting expedition had to "rough it" in more ways than one. There was plenty of game all over the continent in my youthful days, and the average shot need not have lacked a dinner, even if he had not brought with him a consignment of "Europe" provisions. English bread was lacking, certainly, and biscuits, native or otherwise--"otherwise" for choice, as the bazaar article tasted principally of pin-cushions and the smoke of dried and lighted cow-dung--or the ordinary _chupatti_, the flat, unleavened cake, which the poor Indian manufactures for his own consumption. Cold tea is by far the best liquid to carry--or rather to have carried for you--whilst actually shooting; but the weary sportsman will require something more exciting, and more poetical, on his return to camp. As for solid fare it was usually _Pepper-pot_ for dinner, day by day. We called it Pepper-pot--that is to say, although it differed somewhat from the West Indian concoction of that name, for which the following is the recipe:-- Put the remains of any cold flesh or fowl into a saucepan, and cover with _cassaripe_--which has been already described in the Curry chapter as extract of Manioc root. Heat up the stew and serve.