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readers to Aids to Scouting, by Major-General Baden- 

 Powell, published by Gale and Polden at the modest 

 price of one shilling. No member of the Yeomanry 

 should be without it. But I wish to point out that 

 irresponsible scouting by individual civilians is not 

 encouraged by the farmers, who regard it as indis- 

 criminate trespass. Nor do I think that the farmers 

 are to be blamed. Scouting by Yeomanry under 

 trained instructors is very different to amateur 

 scouting, which is merely hare and hounds on horse- 

 back. I should not have mentioned this but for 

 the fact that letters have appeared in the papers 

 blaming farmers for not permitting promiscuous 

 scouting on their land, though they allowed hunting. 

 As what I may term the scouting mania amongst 

 civilians did not commence till after the end of 

 the hunting season 1 899-1 900, when the land was 

 not fit to ride over, the prohibition of the most 

 patriotic farmers is hardly to be wondered at. 



Now in regard to the South African War, the issue 

 to the levee en masse, or augmentation of the volun- 

 teer cavalry, came not from the War Office, but 

 chiefly from the hunting-field. Hunting men like 

 Lord Tredegar, who is Honorary Colonel of the 

 Royal Monmouth Engineer Militia, and one of the 

 keenest and most generous supporters of fox-hunting 

 in South Wales, have willingly lent their horses to 

 the Government. I should mention that Lord 

 Tredegar, as Captain Godfrey Morgan, of the 

 17th Lancers, took part in the Balaclava Charge. 



