In a few minutes the whole place was in a roar, and, as one of the officers told me, the regiment recognised that in B.-P.

they had got "a born buffoon, but a devilish clever fellow." [Illustration: The Dashing Hussar.
(B.-P.

at 21.)] Concerning B.-P.

as an actor, it is characteristic of the thoroughness with which he does everything that he always draws and redraws any character he may be playing until he is perfectly satisfied with the dress and make-up; some of these drawings have been captured by his brother-officers, and are greatly treasured.
Soon after joining he began to show his quality as a sportsman.

In that regiment of fine riders it has always been hard to shine at polo or tent-pegging, or heads-and-posts, but there was no mistaking the perfect horseman in B.-P.