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airy riding of the best order — a point on which I have 

 elsewhere dilated. 



With reference to army officers in Europe, I must say 

 that I have always found among them not only admirable 

 riders, but a strong spirit of appreciation of what is best in 

 horsemanship as well. It may be assumed as an axiom 

 that what they know and what they do is best fitted to 

 what their respective military duties may be. To say 

 that our own army officers could readily learn to do their 

 work, and that they would naturally have much more to 

 learn in order to succeed on our peculiar terrain and under 

 our difficult conditions, wdiile it may be praise to the 

 adaptiveness of our men, is by no means a discredit to 

 those whose duties savor as much of the barracks and 

 drill-ground as the duties of our array do of what is tech- 

 nically known as partisan warfare. 



