THE MILITARY SEAT. 



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hunting seat (pp. 204 and 205) ; and if people would 

 only take the trouble to measure the length of the stirrups 

 as laid down in the ' Cavalry Drill Book,' they would find 

 that it corresponds with that of the hunting seat. To show 

 how closely I have tried to make the military seat like the 



Photo. *] [W. W. ROL'CII & Co. 



Fig. i8g. The Military Seat. 



Major \\ H. King, Riding Master of the Royal Horse Guards, on prize charger 

 "Brampton," Olympia, 1908. 



hunting seat, I quote words which Field Marshal Sir 

 Evelyn .Wood said to me about twelve months ago on the 

 same subject, as follows : ' I distinctly remember your old 

 regiment, the 2ist Lancers, coming to Colchester, when I 

 commanded there, in the year 1887, and I was so struck 



