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PINK AND SCARLET 



CHAPTER I 



THE CASUS BELLI 



" We have one incalculable advantage which no 

 other nation possesses, in that our officers are able 

 to hunt, and than which, combined with study, there 

 is, during peace, no better practice for acquiring the 

 gift which Kellermann naturally possessed " (Sir 

 Evelyn Wood, The Achievements of Cavalry, p. 39). 



" 'Unting, my beloved 'earers, is the sport of 

 kings, the himage of war without its guilt, and 

 only five-and-twenty per cent, of its danger" (Mr. 

 Jorrocks' Lecttire on Hunting, p. 127, "Handley 

 Cross "). 



In the first of these quotations there seems to be 

 more than sufficient justification for the title of these 

 pages. As to the second — well, of all the many 

 true sayings of that most enthusiastic old sportsman, 

 Mr. Jorrocks, none are truer or more to the point 

 than this. 



