Old Seal of the Tandem Club. 



CHAPTER X. 



QUOUSQUE TANDEM? 



BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C. TEESDALE, R.A., V.C., K.C.M.G. 



SOME thirty years ago, soon after all the troops had returned 

 from the Crimea, there was a large garrison at Woolwich, 

 composed not only of gunners, but of the militia regiments 

 which had been doing duty in the Mediterranean. The world 

 went very well then, and a number of officers, for the most part 

 young, were extremely anxious to amuse themselves now that 

 the hard times through which so many had passed were over. 

 In those days communication with London was not so easy 

 and money not plenty as it now seems to be. Consequently 

 amusement had to be found near home. Those were the days 

 when Tom Hills was still the huntsman of the Old Surrey 

 Hounds, and on almost every hunting morning sundry ardent 

 youths were seen jogging off at an early hour to a meet which 

 might have been hard on twenty miles away, to enjoy them- 

 selves amongst the hills and flints of a very peculiar country. 

 Their hunting costumes were not precisely what the golden 



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