A change has come over the, spirit of our dream. For a fow all too short weeks we dreamed of cold, brisk weather, which infused fresh energy into us, so that, however small and outlying a station some of us lived in, we all went in for various forms of gaiety and sport—dances, theat-ticals, tennis and golf tournaments, even cricket and races—some very excellent races in the larger centres such as Calent ta, Poona, Bangalore, and even Madras, and some just as exciting, and to fond, prejudiced eyes even more interesting, races and gymkhanas in little out-of-the-way places where there wore barely two or three Europeans to be gathered together, where nearly every member had to be performer as well as spectator, 80 as to make to pull off the various cold weather dream of energy also led such of us as wore militarily inclined to undertake manceuvres and any amount of drills and parades, down to the smallest volunteer corps. And better still, the Iuckiest of us got some very good sport. Ata place called Moiskundy, in the Nadia District, a pigsticking beat was held on the 13th and Ath January by a Mr, Maleoln Crawford. 'There were' fourteen men out, and the result'was aug of 59 boars, of which 53 were accounted for by eight spears. The: going was very rough and there were humorous spills, Some horses were cut, but no one was injured. But now, alas, ils sent passes, ces beaux jours de fete?" on the great, vast plains of this rear India, the weather is warming up. he sun is gaining more fierce strength daily, the" cool" breezes come more seldom and more sluggishly, and mean soon to cease altogether. Everywhere people are beginning to make and to carry out plans of exodus to the hills or "houie," and the cold season" is already bei on of in a past tense. We must, however, be grateful, for we really have had a cold season even in the hottest and most breeze-forsaken corners of Southern India, and not only a pretence of one; while on the higher hill stations, such as Ootacamund, Kodaikanel and some of the higher mountains of the Western ghents there has been steady frost every night for weeks, and people have been glad to draw in their chairs round blazing wood fires after dinner, Now all the Hill stations are making ready for their low-country visitors and all their gayest times are yet to come.
Plague.
Tam sorry to say that as yet there has been no perceptible decrease in the mortality from plague—rather the other way. In the last week in February there were no fewer than 26,938 deaths from plague alone throughout India; about a thousand more than in the previous woak, It seems appalling, but wemustremember
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