COLONEL HUBBENET 



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and handle. He and his people have evidently kept their 

 process^a secret ; for at other brigades and even at the 

 Petersburg Cavalry Officers' School, I found horses which 

 were dangerously vicious, although they had been under 

 military discipline for ten years and upwards. Several of the 

 regimental officers at the cadres have told me that many of 

 the remounts sent to the regiments are by no means quiet, 

 and that they often give the regimental riding school staff a 

 good deal of trouble to make them right. The case of the 



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FIG. 30. The Tambof Brigade in winter. 



cadres is like that of a horse-dealer, from whose establishment 

 every horse that issues has the manners of an archangel 

 and is as sound as the metaphorical bell of brass. If he 

 subsequently plays up or goes short, the purchaser or his 

 groom is of course in fault. 



Colonel Hubbenet is descended from an old French 

 family, who being Protestants, left their country on the 

 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and settled in the 

 Russian province of Livonia, where German is the language 



