OF THE SPEAR 

 to see a little service, but British 

 cavalry seem to be too carefully 

 bottled up nowadays for one to have 

 a chance of it. You have been lucky, 

 and so, perhaps, you can't enter into 

 my feelings. But that's how it is, 

 and I'm going to send in my 

 papers ! " 



" My dear chap, I quite agree with 

 you about our fine old crusted 

 cavalry, but a day may yet come ! 

 And besides, I don't see exactly why 

 this sudden resolution, noWy with the 

 pig-sticking and polo tournament 

 just coming on. You haven't had to 

 do orderly officer *more than three 

 days a week on an average,' as Mr. 

 Glimmer would say — what has put 

 your back up ? " 



"Nothing has put my back up. 

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