64; SEATS AND SADDLES. 



easy, the recruits that offer themselves must be taken 

 whether they are too tall or too short for the horses, 

 and even for the latter there is no well defined average. 

 When the horses and men can be well matched and the 

 pack is properly arranged the crupper will be found 

 quite unnecessaiy. 



The breastplate might perhaps, in most cases, be 

 dispensed with ; but in others it is useful in keeping 

 the girths in their place ; besides that, it gives a point 

 of attachment for some of the pack, and is indubitably 

 advantageous for lasso draught ; it can do no harm, 

 moreover, unless it be too tight, which is generally the 

 result of cavalry commanding officers being as pedantic 

 about the rosette attached to it being at the same height 

 throughout their front, as infantry ones used to be 

 about the mess-tins being mathematically correct on 

 the tops of the knapsacks. 



dislike infantry service — whence it often happens that very tall 

 men are found mounted on small horses, and vice versa short ones 

 in the infautrv. 



