Excerpt from The Old Missionary

Lieutenant-governors of the North-west and the Punjab. Half a dozen tents on either side formed a short broad street down the middle of a mango grove, with a strip of lawn between and a noble pipal-tree closing in the upper end. On the right of its towering masses of foliage stood the lieutenant-governor's pavilion, the British ¿ag twisting lazily round its pole in the sunshine.

The tents of the Secretary to Government, the private secretary, the aide-de-camp, and the officer commanding the escort, were ranged in military line on one side. Of the lawn. The less regular row facing them was made up of the tents of our small District staff, the judge, the magistrate and his assistant, the superintendent of police, and the old doctor with his melancholy ¿ute. A structure of yellow native cloth for mess pur poses and public receptions stood at the head of the little white street, and was connected with the lieutenant-governor's pavilion by a covered way of canvas across the grass. A few clerks, the troopers of the escort, and the servants, had their humble pent-roof encampment behind the pipal tree on the outskirts of the grove.

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