THE HUMOUR AND PATHOS OF ANGLO-INDIAN LIFE. Extracts from his Brother's Note-book, MADE BY DR. TICKLEMORE. EDITED BY J. E. MAYER, M.D. LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1895. CONTENTS NO. PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY--'THE ELEPHANTA' AND HER PASSENGERS 1 II. CAPTAIN WHISTLER, AND LIFE IN CANTONMENT AT SECUNDERABAD 38 III. MISS B. AND HER PRESENT 86 IV. THE DELIGHTS OF INDIAN MUSIC 103 V. THE PASSAGE OF ARMS BETWEEN COLONEL I., AND MRS. G. 116 VI. MAJOR B.'S WELL-DESERVED DISCOMFITURE 133 VII. THE RACE-STAND AND THE FANCY BALL 144 VIII. WORSHIPPING TITLED FOLK 164 IX. A REMINISCENCE OF TRICHINOPOLY 177 X. CURIOUS MOPLAH CUSTOMS 201 XI. AN HOUR LOST AT MR. G.'S DINNER 243 No. I. INTRODUCTORY.--THE 'ELEPHANTA': CAPTAIN TREVANION AND MR. MARSTON. If the reader could call back the flight of time some twenty years, and with an Ariel's wing transport him or her self on board the homeward-bound P. and O. steamer _Elephanta_, he or she would, on a certain evening between the hours of 7 and 8 p.m., or rather on most evenings at that time, have seen assembled in the saloon, near the piano, some twenty persons, ladies and gentlemen, standing, sitting, or lounging about. In the centre of the group stood Captain James Ward, the commander of the vessel, a tall, thin, wiry man, with handsome, but weather-beaten, features, who had been for many years in her Majesty's Navy, and retained in all respects the manner and bearing of a gentleman. On the Captain's right hand sat Lady Jervois, the young widow of old General Sir Thomas Jervois, K.C.B., and a very pretty sample of widowhood the Lady Sarah was. Her mourning became her wonderfully, and showed the graceful outlines of her figure to perfection--a figure so beautifully proportioned that the most rigid censor could find nothing to object to, unless it might be a slight tendency to _embonpoint_, which many regarded as an additional charm. Generally Lady Jervois bore her recent loss with beautiful resignation; sometimes, indeed, the piquancy of her observations or replies showed that her vivacity, if subdued or scotched by affliction, was not altogether killed; and as the world at large, and especially small worlds like those on board ship, will ever build on slight foundations, the universal opinion seemed to be that she would not long remain a widow.