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is not, therefore, so easy for them to get the necessary- 

 hunting experience. One way to meet this difficulty, 

 and a very excellent way too, is to have a Regimental 

 Hunting Club on the same lines that many regiments 

 have their Polo Clubs, but at a much smaller cost. 

 A few oldish hunters, bought judiciously, on the 

 rejection for bad points principle, will not cost very 

 much, and, as Sir Frederick Fitzwygram says — "they 

 may be plain, but they will be useful." From the 

 back of a really useful horse a man can see sport, 

 though he may not be able to " show the way," in 

 any country. 



With proper management it could be possible to 

 let these horses out to members of the club for a 

 day's hunting at a comparatively low rate. 



If it is not worth any Commanding Officer's while 

 to organize and encourage this sort of Club in a 

 Regiment, then there is not a single true word in 

 the whole of these pages. 



" 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." 



These words of Sir Evelyn Wood have been 

 taken from p. i, and repeated here, because it is 

 to be feared that too many of us forget to com- 

 bine the sport, which we take to so readily, with 

 the necessary study to make us soldiers in every 

 sense of the word. 



Bismarck said — " Fools say, that you can only 



