. England in the nineteenth century;. t in whichhe was in command. John was a civilian, and bitterly didhe chafe at not being a soldier. Their father had been anold Indian officer. Their mother was left in Scotland awidow with her large family of boys. They all went toschool to an uncle who was a schoolmaster at London-derry, in Ireland. Henry and John had had for their school-fellow a boy named Montgomery, who also went to India. When the Punjaub had been conquered by the English,its government was placed in the hands of three commission-ers ; these chanced to be the three old schoolmates. On
. England in the nineteenth century;. t in whichhe was in command. John was a civilian, and bitterly didhe chafe at not being a soldier. Their father had been anold Indian officer. Their mother was left in Scotland awidow with her large family of boys. They all went toschool to an uncle who was a schoolmaster at London-derry, in Ireland. Henry and John had had for their school-fellow a boy named Montgomery, who also went to India. When the Punjaub had been conquered by the English,its government was placed in the hands of three commission-ers ; these chanced to be the three old schoolmates. Onenight as they were sitting together they began to talk ofold school-days, and of two ushers, twin brothers, namedSimpson, who had been kind to them. I 11 tell you whatwe 11 do, said Henry Lawrence. The Simpsons must bevery old now, and I dare say nearly blind : let us each sendthem ^^50 to-morrow as a Christmas gift, with the goodwishes of three of their old pupils, now members of thePunjaub Board of Administration at Lahore. Months. S/R JOHN LA WRENCE. THE INDIAN MUTINY. 26$ after came a letter, beginning, My dear, kind boys,saying that their generous gift would make the decHningyears of the writer and his brother comfortable, and thatit was precious to have been thought of by pupils who hadattained what seemed to be a high position. He had gotout the old school atlas, but he could not find the Punjaub,and he could not find Lahore; and neither he nor hisbrother knew what a Board of Administration meant, butthey felt certain it was something that gave their dear boysgreat importance. Could they have discovered the Punjaub on their map,they would have found it to be a small triangle, with itsbase stuck on to the northwest corner of the great triangleof India. The Sutlej is its southern boundary, the Indusflows through it, and it separates Hindoostan from Beloo-chistan and Afghanistan. Over this great and difficult possession the two Lawrencesand Montgomery were appointed to rul
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