middle of the day and I like the place. I wish

you could see the flowers and the black men

and the funny houses and the colored dresses

of the people. I am getting on, I hope, and

my sergeant told me the other day I might

get the stripe soon if I liked. I will keep a

lookout as you told me for Master Dudley's

father, but they say India is a bigger place

than England, which I don't believe, for we're

the grandest nation in the world, and the biggest