However, I will take care to mention, when I write next to Calcutta, that the cattle are far above the average; and I shall be glad if they will arrange for such further supplies as we may require from the same source." "Thank you, sir; that will be a great help to my uncle.

Hitherto he has had very uphill work of it; though he was beginning to get on very well, when the war put a stop to trade.

He knows the whole country so thoroughly that he can certainly buy up cattle at many places where no European trader, save himself, has ever penetrated." "No doubt, Brooke; and I hope, for your sake, that he will succeed well in this contracting business.

He has certainly made an excellent start and, as he is first in the field in the country between Assam and Ramgur, he ought to make a good thing of this opportunity that has fallen in his way.

I know that it takes a long time to build up a business but, when the foundation is laid, and a man is quick in taking advantage of an opportunity, he can do as much in a year as he might do in twenty, without it.
"Now, I am going over to the lines of the 47th, to see how they have shaken down into them." This regiment had brought out tents for, as every building was already occupied, it was necessary that they should be put under canvas.