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riding the horse in ease and comfort he would have had 

 me shot at dawn. 



After being invalided home I was gazetted second- 

 lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps, but on 

 medical grounds I had to relinquish my commission. 

 (London Gazette, July 17, 1916.) It was at this period 

 that I took to a country life. I decided to utilise my 

 knowledge of the horse with a view to breeding and 

 training, and it was at this stage I wished I had been 

 born twenty years sooner, when the roads were made 

 for horses, not motor-cars. 



DRIVING 



Most of us at some time in our lives have driven a 

 horse. It seems quite an easy undertaking when the 

 horse is a congenial old fellow who knows his way about 

 fairly well. But, when spirited horses are to be dealt 

 with, then there are some people who would prefer to be 

 driven instead of driving themselves. 



I hate to see the old gentleman who has " been used 

 to horses all his life/' as soon as he takes the reins, allows 

 the horse to race off at a terrific pace, a sort of trotting 

 with his forelegs and fox-trotting with his hind ones. 

 This type of driver will never be told, and he is usually 

 the gentleman who boasts of all sorts of numerous 



