2 PINK AND SCARLET 



"The image of war" — Mr. Jorrocks, speaking 

 some thirty-five years ago, is borne out to-day by 

 one of the keenest soldier-sportsmen of our age. 



In using the above-quoted words, Sir Evelyn 

 Wood was, as the name Kellermann naturally sug- 

 gests, referring to cavalry officers. There is no 

 doubt, however, that he considers hunting is equally 

 good for officers of all branches of the service. 



Should the sceptical wish to go further back for 

 an opinion on this point, let them consider why the 

 Duke of Wellington had a pack of hounds out in 

 the Peninsula. Those must indeed have been 

 grand days to soldier in, to hunt one day and fight 

 the next. What could a soldier possibly want more .'* 



How was it that the Duke used to get his in- 

 formation during the campaign but by using well- 

 mounted Staff officers, which General Marbot tells 

 us, with regret, the French were unable to catch ; 

 and where was it but in the hunting-field that these 

 same officers acquired that eye for, and that quick- 

 ness in getting across country, which so effectually 

 baffled the French cavalry ? 



Did not the hero of Waterloo say of that king of 

 sportsmen, Asheton Smith, "he would have made 

 one of the best cavalry officers in Europe " ? 



To come to our own times, what does Kinglake 

 say about the use of " hunting education " to Colonel 

 Lacy Yea, when it came to a question of " how to 

 get on " at the battle of the Alma ? 



" The 7th Fusiliers being on the extreme right of 

 Codrington's Brigade was beyond the reach of his 



