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wags " start a game of jerreed-throwing. This 

 consists in two parties of mounted men forming up 

 about one hundred and fifty yards apart, each with 

 two or three palm-leaf stalks, to represent spears, 

 in their hands ; one man from each side rides out, 

 and after some manoeuvring, they throw their 

 sham spears at each other. The supposed victor 

 is at once dashed at by two or three of the 

 other side, and so on. The British officers are 

 invited to take part, and they do so. During the 

 process of the game one of them, instead of waiting 

 for the onlookers to hand him fresh " spears," leans 

 down from his pony, and, without dismounting, 

 picks up from the ground those which have already 

 been used. Not a difficult feat from a small pony. 

 The effect, however, is great ; the " Scallywags " 

 point at, and talk about him eagerly, and when 

 the game stops their principal sheiks go to the 

 officer who is in charge of them, and request that 

 they may be introduced to, and allowed to shake 

 hands with, the man whom they consider has shown 

 himself to be so much at home on a horse. They 

 would do anything for such a man, and would 

 follow him anywhere. 



At the very moment of writing, the leading 

 service paper, and the leading service magazine, 

 are both giving evidence of the value of hunting 

 to the soldier, and, through him, to the country 

 in general. The Broad Arrow of December 31, 

 1898, in a leading article on Mounted Infantry, has 

 the following : — 



