vi THE COMPLETE HORSEMAN 



knowledge, tells us that the day of the horse 

 is over and busies himself in making mental 

 pictures of a new earth such as no sane man 

 would care to live in. 



In spite of all this talk about the day of the 

 Horse being over I have taken for my motto 

 '' The Horse is a noble animal and the friend of 

 man '' ; and I have done so because I am of 

 opinion that the truth of the statem.ent will be- 

 come more apparent as Time rolls on, and that 

 the horse has yet a very important place to fill in 

 the economy of life. The Military use of horses 

 may be left out of the argument — at any rate as 

 regards its direct bearing on the question. It is, 

 I think, generally admitted by those who are 

 best qualified to give an opinion that the horse 

 will be more used in war than ever, but that we 

 will leave to the experts. There is however very 

 little doubt that the Military use of horses has an 

 indirect influence, and that a very strong one, on 

 the civilian taste for Horses and Horsemanship, 

 and that the love of horses which soldiers have 

 does not remain confined to their own class but 

 is spread widely throughout the community. 



An instance of this may be given. A patri- 

 otic young man wished to join the auxiliary 

 forces and selected the mounted branch. It was 

 pointed out to him that in the mounted corps he 

 would have much more work to do when in 



