CHAPTER VI 



FIELD TRAINING 



An officer can be of little use on active service 

 unless he can command and handle his men (i. e. 

 knows his drill), has had some practice In marches, 

 outposts, and practical work generally, and has 

 acquired by reading some knowledge of what he 

 and his men may expect to meet with In actual 

 war. 



It Is the same with "the Image of war," and no 

 man should be allowed to hunt until he has at 

 any rate mastered the rudiments of equitation, can 

 sit fairly tight over a fence, open a gate properly, 

 hold his whip In the right way, and a host of 

 other minor details which It Is now proposed to 

 go Into. 



This Is not a treatise on riding, nor would 



such a thing, even if written by poor "Roddy" 



Owen and Fred Archer, In conjunction with the 



greatest master of the art of the haute hole that 



ever stepped Into a ridlng-school, enable a man 



to become a good horseman, or even to ride well. 



Nothing but practical experience can teach him 



either. 



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