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do, how, forsooth, shall he use his sabre or his carbine ? I 

 must not be construed as objecting to the trot. It is an 

 essential gait, and the one our own army men most con- 

 stantly use as an alternate with the walk. But a soldier 

 should ride a soldier's trot, not a cross-country rider's — at 

 least, when in uniform. Else why the uniform? This 

 being but an outward and visible sign of the inward and 

 spiritual discipline, why not preserve the other elements 

 which go to show the soldier ? Pipe-clay is disappearing. 

 It was only a manifestation of discipline at any time ; and 

 as a uniform is exactly this and no more, the soldier's 

 ways should be in keeping with the dress. 



I am solicitous to avoid the imputation that may be 

 cast upon me of being an Anglophobist. Like Artemas 

 Ward, I scorn the allegation and defy the allegator. What 

 I have heretofore said ought to suffice to prove that no 

 one has a more sincere regard and admiration for most 

 things English than I. Her Gracious Majesty the Queen- 

 Empress has scarce a more loyal subject. Why, I can re- 

 member her way back in 1851, in the Great Exhibition 

 year, when she was still a young queen, and used still not 

 infrequently to be seen in the saddle in the Park. My 

 loyalty to her has never swerved, and my six or seven 

 3^ears in England have made me almost a Briton, in fact, as 

 my old Salem ancestry truly was up to 1776, of glorious 

 memory. But may I not criticise withal ? Is my loyalty 

 the less because, when I get wrathy, I " write to the 

 Times V In horse sports, as a nation, the English are 

 easily first. I grant it with pleasure, and whenever I 

 take down Whyte Melville or some other charming chron- 

 icler of the hunting- field, I fall in love anew with this 

 splendid people and their ever-green land. But — well, the 

 buts have already been put in. Let us change the subject 

 as radically as we can. God save the Queen ! 



