206 THE HOESE AND HIS RIDEK. 



will inevitably take place if our cavalry try the harness 

 without first not only patiently but cordially and zealously 

 learning how to use it. Yet this ought not, in common 

 justice, to condemn the principle ; for, could cavalry, 

 without some little instruction, succeed in driving even 

 with our own harness ? — Could French coachmen, without 

 practice, drive our mails? — Could our English postilions 

 drive the five horses of a French diligence? And if 

 driving is thus a science of many departments, it would 

 not be reasonable to expect that our cavalry should be 

 able to drive, merely because they have learnt to ride. 



How TO Hobble and Anchoe Horses. 



" Hard pummelling,'' said the Duke of Wellington to 

 the Guards at Waterloo, ^^ Hard pummelling, Gentlemen! 

 Well, we must just see who'll pummel the hardest." 



During the reign of Brown Bess the great battles of 

 Europe were decided very much in the manner above 

 described. 



Two armies met on a battle-field, or two fleets on 

 "the wide, rude sea," as in England two prize-fighters 

 have entered a small space encircled by ropes, to "see 

 who'll pummel the hardest." In all three cases, endur- 



