It was only a prick with a spear in my thigh--" It is the very deuce editing these old letters without anything to guide one.

As far as I can make out by myself (Jim being now down at Melton hunting, and not having answered my letter of inquiries), this letter must have come accompanied by an Indian newspaper containing the account of some battle or campaign in which he was engaged.

Putting this and that together, I am inclined to believe that it refers to the defence of Jellalabad by Sir Robert Sale, in which I know he was engaged.

I form this opinion from the fact of his mentioning that the fortifications were destroyed by an earthquake.

And I very much fear that the individual so disrespectfully mentioned above as "Bobby," was no other than the great Hero himself.