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dress. It will add greatly, not only to comfort, but 

 also to the easiness with which the reins can on 

 occasions be held, if a pair of thick, large worsted 

 gloves are carried under the saddle-flaps when 

 hunting. Placed there they are kept dry and warm, 

 and can easily be got at should rain come on. Wet 

 dogskin or buckskin gloves are very uncomfortable, 

 and what is worse the reins slip through them. The 

 same applies to bare hands. 



Poor " Roddy " Owen might always be observed, 

 when riding a race on a wet day, wearing woollen 

 gloves, and on one very wet day at Aldershot, it 

 was generally said that he won through being able 

 to comfortably hold his reins with them, while the 

 other riders' reins kept slipping through their bare 

 cold hands. 



A flask carried in a pocket is dangerous, for a 

 fall on it may mean a bad contusion or a broken 

 rib, therefore have it in a case attached to the 

 saddle. A plain horn-shaped one looks best. 



The sceptical individual is probably beginning 

 to grin with triumph about this time, and say to 

 himself, " Except for a few solitary points mentioned, 

 where do the lessons for soldiering come in in this 

 chapter ? Do we want our soldiers to be dandies }'' 



The answer is to join conclusions with him at once 

 and say, " Yes, certainly we do, so long as it does not 

 make them effeminate fops." 



What said the Iron Duke about dandies as 

 soldiers ? 



What about the story of the Guardsman in the 



