Calpe; or that any of your Arabs would be a match for my black horse Constitution?"

As Sam here raised his voice, the dialogue began to attract the attention of the whole party.

"Touching our 'foxing' there, I'll not say much about it, as its principal merit consisted in being devilish sharp work, and requiring good nerves to keep properly up to the dogs, over the break-neck cotton ground, deep dry nullahs, or water-courses, and broad, smooth slabs of rock, with which the country is everywhere intersected; but as for old Constitution! we will not mention him in the same breath with our high caste Indian Arabs, some of which cost fifteen hundred and two thousand rupees. Why, man! he was not even fit to hold a candle to Napier's little Mahratta horse Lamplighter, with which he could spear, single-handed, a well-grown fawn antelope; and on open ground whip a jackall without the aid of dogs. By Jove! the Lamplighter, though a rum-un to look at, was, indeed, a very devil to go."

"He must, indeed, have been a curious looking animal," replied Sam, "if in any way resembling the yellow beast whose picture is stuck up in your barrack-room"-continued he to me-" why, his head is represented like a fiddle-box; he is as long-backed as a snake, with an awful goose rump, and made for all the world like a cow behind; besides, such an appendage in the shape of a tail! Sacramens! I would have taken a yard's length off it, and have given Mr. Lamplighter a racing dock, like old Constitution."

"If Constitution could have shewn his tail to as many as little Lamplighter did, you would not have thought of docking him, my lad! I got him from old Child there, who will, I dare say, tell you more about him."

"Come, Light Infantry, to the front," roared out the youngsters; "forward, Old Big-Belly, the Captain wants you out to skirmish."

Thus appealed to, my portly Sub-who, by the bye, had of late well earned his elegant "sobriquet"-very reluctantly raised himself from a most comfortable, recumbent position