ade good use of his military education
in having the very best drilled school cadets on the continent. His
brothers, Colonel John and Colonel Sam Hughes, also qualified at the
school.

Senator Kirchhoffer while qualifying took great interest in the school
field sports, being a splendid cricketer; the Senator's football team
would often meet the law students and any of the city teams that would
put up a game. The writer was also fond of cricket.

Through the kindness of Colonel Steele, who applied to the department
at Ottawa for a list of the names of the cadets who graduated during
my two years' instruction, Major Winters, D.A.G., ordered a list to be
prepared, and subsequently I received a roll containing 850 names. I
was extremely pleased to look over the names of these gentlemen, whom,
with few exceptions, I had not seen or heard of for forty years. I saw
an account of the death of Professor Cherriman, who died in London,
England; he was a cadet and was captain of the University company at
the time. I also met Mr. F. Yokome, editor of the Peterboro' _Examiner_,
and it was a pleasant meeting. I remember the present Judge Ermatinger
and Chief Justice Strong, recently deceased, who were among the boys;
also Colonel Ward, Port Hope; Colonel Farewell, Whitby, and Colonel
Walker, who was Colonel Steele's school chum, and now commands the
15th Light Horse, with headquarters at Calgary, and others now very
prominent in Canadian affairs.

In May, 1868, we received orders to embark for the Old Country, and on
the 15th we sailed from the Queen's Wharf, touching at Kingston to
take on two companies which were on detachment, and continued our
passage to Quebec, where we were transferred to the Allan liner
_Moravian_. This was the best trip we had yet made. We had plenty of
room, good food, and the men were allowed to smoke any time they
wished.

We disembarked at Kingston, Ireland, and left at once for Dublin to
occupy the Royal barracks. I again resumed my duties as drill
instructor. We were considerably under the strength, having left a
large number of men in Ontario. The recruiting sergeants were at their
respective stations, busy sending us all the men they could enlist, and
we got some fine big fellows. A general election was about to take
place and the regiment was under orders to move to any town or district
where polling was to take place, to assist the constabulary in keeping
order and such duties.

We received re