Indian pictures and problems . s of thebeleaguered garrison in 1857. Yet he wears uponhis coat that precious decoration which tells ofhardship unspeakable and of victory won when hewas but a schoolboy in the College of La go through Lucknow with Mr. Hilton is tolive through those tragic days oneself. He canpoint out the site of the old church in cantonmentswhere, on Saturday evening, the 30th of May,1857, he and his fellow choristers were practisingthe Magnificat, when suddenly the trumpetssounded the alarm and the choir practice wassilenced for ever. In his Guide to Lucknow,whic
Indian pictures and problems . s of thebeleaguered garrison in 1857. Yet he wears uponhis coat that precious decoration which tells ofhardship unspeakable and of victory won when hewas but a schoolboy in the College of La go through Lucknow with Mr. Hilton is tolive through those tragic days oneself. He canpoint out the site of the old church in cantonmentswhere, on Saturday evening, the 30th of May,1857, he and his fellow choristers were practisingthe Magnificat, when suddenly the trumpetssounded the alarm and the choir practice wassilenced for ever. In his Guide to Lucknow,which, for facts and maps and stirring narrative,is invaluable to the visitor to that city, he tellsthe story of his return with other boys to theCollege; of the native cavalry soldier who badethem surrender themselves as his prisoners, butwhose horse declined to approach their elephantsand thus enable him to enforce compliance withhis order; of their safe arrival at La Martiniere and the view of the cantonments they had lately 78. LUCKNOW, PAST AND PRESENT left—now all ablaze. After this the College wasset in order for defence, and none too soon; fora serious skirmish took place in its playing-fieldswithin the next few days, and matters became sograve that the whole school was summoned bySir Henry Lawrence to share the protection ofthe Residency. It is difficult to follow, evenwith such a guide, the road then taken; for thecrowded streets of native dwellings and bazaarsare now razed to the ground, and not a trace ofthem exists. But, once within the sacred precincts of theResidency, there is not a wall or a pillar or agateway whose stones cannot preach their sermonto us who come after, a story written in lettersof fire upon Mr. Hiltons brain. As we enter thegrounds, at Baillies Guard Gate, riven and riddledby shot and shell, he shows us the embrasure forAitkens death-dealing gun, and the spot wherehe and his youthful companion were surprisedby an officer asleep at their post, Sol
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