LIGHT HOESE. ^ 213 



tliougli my own fancy is for tlie former, for many reasons. 

 All tliat I liave endeavonred to show is, tlie ease with 

 wliicli tlie troop liorse may be assimilated to the hunter, 

 and the small amount of difference in his training and 

 treatment required for this result — a result that, if 

 attained, will enable cavalry to act at speed over all sorts 

 of ground in reason in a way that shall prevent the 

 ^^arms of precision " having it all their own way. Any- 

 thing that adds to the dash of the dragoon without 

 decreasing his steadiness is an advantage, and this fact 

 must be my excuse for an action not contemplated by the 

 Mutiny Act, the Queen^s regulations, or " the book '^^ 

 itself, viz., considering light horse from a sporting point 

 of view ! 



* The "cavalry regulations" are usually thus described by 

 adjutants, and regimental staJBT generally. 



