Show on the bearch in india tho the rouse bugle as a rule is sound led ed about 4 a m and shortly afterward the sleepy officer is awakened by his servant bearing a lamp in one hand and a cup of tea or cocoa in the other at tile the time of year when regiments in india are marching in course of relief it is bitter cold and dressing is not an inspirit inspiriting ng process about you isaur shivering from your tent and proceed to where the men of your company are loading g ele chants ants camels mules or pack bullocks with their camp equipage and kits the scene is a busy and picturesque one for foi all the light at this early hour is derived from torches and blazing fires and the contusion confusion seems indefinite at abort about however the loading is is completed the fall in is sounded and punctually at 5 away goes the regiment as merrily as the darkness and the occasional eccentricities of the road will allow after the first half hour a short halt is called and thenceforward halts of five minutes every halt half hour not including the long coffee halt usually at about aboul six miles from the last camp during the coffee halt every one has coffee or tea and biscuits the day having by this time broken and when once more the regiment moves off the band strikes up and the brass instruments take turn about aboul with the drums and fifes cifes until the next nex camp is ia reached here the regiment regi meu finds the camp already marked out by the camp color party sent bent on the night before for that purpose in a very short shon time the camp is fully pitched a general genera toilet follows and a most welcome breakfast and then possibly some shooting lunch a stroll an early dinner dinne r in the big mess tent a chat round a camp fire and bed not a very exciting existence but a 1 very sociable and eminently healthy one chambers journal |