CHAPTER IV.

ARMY LIFE 25

Poverty, hunger, and debt--Enlisting for the East India service--Enrolled in the 50th Foot--Transferred to the 7th Dragoon Guards--Family reconciliation--The father's changed character--Troubles at sea--Temperance advocacy under difficulties--"Leaves"--At Rathmines Church--A right-of-way--A new officer--Donnybrook Fair--An Irish tragedy.