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pink and white to gallop through mud, and perhaps 

 to go head over heels into a boggy ditch before he 

 has been out an hour, should be the best of schools 

 to teach him to set an example to his men, and also 

 to see that they themselves turn out as well as 

 possible under all circumstances ? 



A dear old commanding officer, the late Colonel 

 C. H. Browne, C.B., known in the service generally 

 as " Charlie Browne," used to say to us subalterns — 

 "If you fellows hunt and race I will have you 

 properly dressed. Think of my feelings if it comes 

 to a coroner's inquest, and you are laid out badly 

 turned out ? " 



Bear this in mind, young idea, and remember also 

 that as an officer you have a position to keep up 

 both in and out of uniform. 



Nothing that has been said is meant to infer that 

 because a man has a bad kit he must be a bad horse- 

 man or an indifferent sportsman. There are good 

 horses in all shapes, and good sportsmen and horse- 

 men are as often as not found beneath the worst of 

 hats and clothed in the most unfashionable of coats. 



We are perhaps beginning to " dwell " on the line 

 and must "get for'ard," for though the tailor, com- 

 bined with the barrack square drill, can make up the 

 body of the officer, he cannot make his fighting 

 intelligence, and it is our business to show how 

 hunting can go a long way towards doing so. 



Before turning over the page, however, it would 

 perhaps be as well to remind the ingenuous youth 

 that it is not the kit alone that makes up the whole, 



