tetters from HutDors, 



BATEMAN'S, BURWASH, SUSSEX, 



2.oth Sept., 1902. 

 DEAR SIR, 



Your book, as you say, was overlooked in my removal. 

 I have to thank you for it, and have read it with interest ; 

 I hope the sale of it will help you towards the very laudable 

 object which you have in view. So far as my small 

 experience has gone, it is from the training of the boys that 

 we can best hope for an efficient citizen army in the future. 



Yours sincerely. 



RUDYARD KIPLING. 

 Lieut. -Col. FRANK SHEFFIELD. 



LYON LODGE, ISLEWORTH, 



25/A Aug., 1902. 

 DEAR SIR, 



I certainly think your work deserves a wide circulation, 

 if only for the reason that it contains the most realistic 

 description of an encounter with a tiger and the sequela that 

 in a long experience I have ever read ; while, when I connect 

 the above with the admirable objects you have in view, the 

 advance of Cadet training, I certainly think your book merits, 

 and should have, a very extensive sale. I say this as one 

 who for long past has taken a great interest in national 

 defence, and who has felt the need for better efforts to 

 increase the Army than the dependence upon the recruiting 

 sergeant amongst the lower strata of society. 



As an old volunteer, I naturally lean towards voluntary 

 effort, and should like to see the State foster this service to 

 a far greater extent than has ever been done in the past. 



Nothing could be better than the effort you are making 

 to literally, as well as metaphorically, "teach the young idea 

 how to shoot." May the need for the services of our boys 

 and young men again be far distant ; but in these days of 

 the expansion of our Empire, "ready, aye ready" must be 

 England's motto, and if adopted to the full the need for our 

 services may never come. 



I am, Faithfully yours, 



GEO. MANVILLE FENN. 

 Lieut. -Col. FRANK SHEFFIELD. 



THE DEANERY, CANTERBURY, 



24/A Sept., 1902. 

 DEAR SIR, 



I thank you for the kind present of your book, which 

 I am sure will be found interesting by many readers, and to 

 which I wish every success. 



Forgive my not writing with my own hand, as I am no 

 longer able to do so. 



Yours faithfully, 



(for) F. W. FARRAR. 



