ON a space of level green lawn, roped off from a rainbow crowd,—Hindus, Malays, Burmese, Parsees, Jews, Chinamen, and white men, civilians and soldiers,—teams representing the "Black" McKenzies and the Cawnpore "Larrups" were fairly busy playing a match of football. Great excitement prevailed for the tropics, because in half an hour's play one of the Larrups had been butted in the stomach by one of the McKenzies and knocked down. People spoke in awed whispers of that "fiend incarnate, Burdock" of the McKenzies. His supporters gave him a regular ovation. One man, who in his time had seen Yale play Princeton, was not particularly impressed. Indeed, he paid no attention to the game whatever, but went shouldering through the crowd in search of a weak
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Chapter XVI
