"Not a drink till we return from service." "And a hard service too," said the choking orderly, emptying a sodawater bottle he had found by accident in his boot. Such is the force of discipline. I like to chronicle such instances of self-sacrifice as these. I told the genial captain of the corps on our return, and he told mc, with pardonable pride, such cases j are anything but rare in his troop. Another instance of good soldiering. I went, accord ing to your instructions, to report on the officers' mess. On arrival at Ooker's, where the messing was going on, a martial-looking Naval Brigadier stopped mc and asked mc who went there. I said I hoped to, and Mr Coker, seeing I didn't understand the allusions of the sentry, said I could pass in to mess, adding something I could not take about my being the best messer he ever knew. He gave mc, seeing my nervous state, a scintillation of Amontillado, and I entered. Coker ia a good sort. He can recognise merit in a man who, in the execution of his messing duty, hears the deadly dirk of the martial marine. When I say the commissariat was good, you may believe mc, for in the old man's time he has, at the feasts of the nobility and gentry of this country, frequently assisted—in clearing away the dishes and things. And why you don't send him to report a dinner now and then I can't quite make out. But this is foreign, not military matter. After mess, still following your in structions, I interviewed Dr. Diver, whose j apartments were one blaze of Oriental splendour. What with the glitter of Bteel, the sheen of silver, and the polished courtesy of the glass, I was that rolled into a heap that I scarcely got through my inquiries as well as I could wish. I received an appointment on the medical staff for the Eeview, and I trust this honor will be duly appreciated when the old man calls around for his little settlement for Eeview expenses. Some of the officers present, notably I remember a stalwart and genial officer of the Southern Artillery, suggested we should visit " The Grand Bounds." I didn't know who the Grand Bound was. 