No wonder therefore that, when the post Commander-in-Chief in Tndix fell vacant in 1893, by the retirement of Lord Roberts, hire, who had fought under him ws ple major of the "Gay Gordons" in "pointed to succeed hi pear, on the roy, Lord Dufferin, highest opinion of certain rear outery at this unwonted spectacle of a Major-General being moted over the heads of so many of his seniors, Li neral, to the plum his profession in India, but judgment, not jobbery, was the bottom of the Appointment, which Sir George's five years' tenure of el overing the period of f our "little wars," on the Li including the Tirah completely justified; and when, on quitting India in 1898 to take up the appointment of Quarter-Master-General in Pall Mall, he was treated to a banquet at essed his own mili-1 no Jingo. would perhaps testify that Chad been as sions to steer clear of cantses of of my civil colleagues... The which we are now engaged (Tirah, &e.), ud which are costing us untold gold, are none of our seeking; but, being in them, we hope to bear ourselves ~o that the opposer may beware of us for some time."
Owing to the compound fracture of his leg froma kick of his horse before leaving Tndia, his assumption of office in Pall Mall was retarded; and this office proving uncongenial to_him he accepted the governership of Gibr only to he called away ft the to" take command of the Natal Field Force, at the head of which he will prove terribly true to the advice of Polontus to Laertes, to which he alluded in his parting speech at Simla—
Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposer may beware of thee, [ann ricuts reserve.]
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