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ridden against him when dear old Tom had the 

 horse." I " should have seen how Dick used to 

 shove him along over a country." While all agreed 

 that Harry never lost a spear off him. 



If you are landed with an unstaunch horse get 

 rid of him at once. Sell him according to your 

 conscience as either a made pig-sticker or a lady's 

 hack. Give a coward a fair trial, and then never 

 go on with him. He is not worth it : a crowning 

 sorrow in this land of woe. 



Some of the native cavalry regiments sell horses. 

 I wonder that more do not. 



I bought Crispin, of whom more later, from 

 Major Knowles of the 2nd Lancers, who got him 

 from among the remounts of his regiment. He 

 is the best horse I have ever had, of high quality, 

 fast and bold. Not many have led him in a 

 hunt, nor equalled him in his fighting qualities. 

 Pioneer came from the Central India Horse. 



At one of those periodical large gatherings, when 

 the civilian measures the importance of the occasion 

 by the discomfort that he deals out to his military 

 friends, I was in want of a couple of horses. I had 

 been too busy to do anything till the last day, when 

 I went to a certain native cavalry regiment and 

 told them that I was short of time, of a confiding 

 nature, and without experience. As I knew they 

 sold good horses would they trot me out one or 

 two of their best ? They welcomed me. They 

 kept no bad horses, but the very best they had 

 were at my service. For themselves, their lives 

 were spent in the service of the widow and orphan. 

 The animals they produced would have dried up 

 the Pool of Siloam. I got a nice horse in the end. 



When young I bought a horse from another 



