Photo, by M. H. Hayes. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Cramming Militia Subalterns A Book on Tactics Mr John Hubert Moore 

 Horse Breaking Writing New Editions Mr John Sturgess A Book 

 on the Shape and Make of Horses Newmarket Mr John Hammond 

 St Gatien Mr John Corlett The Sporting Times ' Gubbins ' 

 ' Shifter ' The Earnings of Jockeys and Trainers Irish Horses in 

 England Touting Mr Townsend, the Horse Painter Mr Oswald 

 Brown Mr Allan Sealy Mr Sam Waller Mr Briton Riviere Mr 

 Haywood Hardy Mr John Charlton. 



AFTER having brought out my book on Riding, and 

 looked on at a season's racing in England, I began 

 to feel that I would like a new sensation. Colonel Kinchant, 

 who was an old racing friend and who afterwards commanded 

 the nth Hussars, on hearing my plaint (for we used to go 

 about a great deal together), suggested that I should try my 

 hand at army cramming ! ' You are an old Gunner/ said he ; 

 ' and you are smart at mathematics, drawing and all that sort 

 of things,' he was kind enough to add ; ' so all you have got 



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