who hacked jpe, for he transfixed him with that glittering eye glass and spluttered out— _ , nI • Like to back the English teem, Fordyce V ‘Not much I’ was the only answer he got, and I wondered at it. The chaffing and badgering still went on, and before we adjourned to the billiard-room we five of the K.D.G.s had pledged our team to play Jones’ niggers, and were booked in wagers to’the tune of 10,000 rupees between us. As we rose, Mortyne said— ‘ Name your team, Jones. Who are they ? ‘They are men of the crack cavalry regj- Sent iu India—commonly called “Probyn’s orate.” *' ‘By Jove i Your own regiment? *Jnsfe so/said’Jones. / And if you are agreeable to ftltep tqe ponditiqns of the wager I’ll make one of tho team* 1 , , We roared again. The idea seemed ludi ‘ Certainly, Jones. Oh, do play!’ said I, ‘Very well,* said Jones, who appeared per fectly sober now, 1 Three natives and myself from the Eleventh Bombay, bareback and without bridles, against the cracks of the K.D.G.s. Great Allah I what a lark ! As we were leaving the club the man who had backed me came up and apologised, and we walked down to my quarters together. ‘Great Scott! how you fellows have fallen in I I tried hard to warn you—but too late. Carr-Jones is the moat brilliant polo player in India, and tha troopers of the Eleventh Bombay have beaten every team from Lahore to Kurtaohoe. It’s a regular game of spoof, and yours will bd the fifth English team J ones has fooled within the last twelve months, he .said. , t ‘ And so it turned out. On the following Saturday the Eleventh Bombay team came down with an escort. Fine dashing cavalrymen evepy one of them. Finer troopers j would never wish to sea. And Lord! bow they played polo j On their barebacked, shaggy Macippuria, with only a halter for a rein, they careered oyer the ground yelling like savage*. And that beast Jones was simply magnificent. X never saw— nor shall X ever man plp f y like him again. We were no match for them, and I consider it no disgrace to say that we wore beaten by the finest polo team in the world by seventeen goals to two. 