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have induced him to give up his chance of the 

 mitre for that of a marshal's baton. As he was a 

 cadet of a rich and noble family, his chances were 

 fair, for in the church, as well as the army, money 

 and interest go a long way. It is very easy to ride 

 in the first flight when one has a clipping nag, but 

 it requires science, fearless riding, good condition, 

 and luck, for a plebeian on a screw to overhaul a 

 don on a four-hundred-guinea hunter. It must 

 not be imagined that all who are in at the death 

 get there by the same means. There are some 

 generals to whose names K.C.B. is tacked who have 

 never even smelt gunpowder, except on the parade 

 ground ; whilst veterans of a hundred fights, who 

 are covered with wounds and maimed until their 

 very existence is a misery to them, are neglected 

 and left to die in the gutter. However this is but 

 an old grievance, which must have existed even in 

 Shakspere's time, for he thus alludes to it : 



" Go to the wars, would you, 



Where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg, 



And have not money enough at the end 



To buy him a wooden one." 



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" There's but three of my hundred and fifty left alive, 

 And they are for the town's end, to beg during life." 



