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Hallam Parr — is, " that they obtained celebrity 

 through mounted work." 



We have shot our bolt, and must pull up. But 

 before doing so we would say, that the ink used will 

 not have been spilt in vain, if anything we have said 

 contributes in the smallest degree towards causing 

 the young soldier to be regarded from the following 

 point of view — 



" As he sits in the saddle, a baby could tell 

 He can hustle a sticker, a flyer can spare ; 

 He has science, and nerve, and decision as well, 

 He knows where he's going and means to be there. 

 The first day I saw him they said at the meet, 

 'That's a rum one to follow, a bad one to beat.' " 



"Science," "nerve," "decision," "knows where 

 he's going and means to be there," " rum to follow," 

 and " bad to beat." Surely this one verse of Whyte- 

 Melville's reminds us once more, most forcibly, 

 first, that the chief characteristics required by those 

 who campaign in the pink coat of the chase are 

 identical with the characteristics required by those 

 who do so in the scarlet coat of war ; and secondly, 

 that the wearers of both coats, and also those whose 

 duty it is to follow them, must be — 



" Resolute men, who, pushing into the fray, 

 acquire that enthusiasm which compels victory." 



So we see " Hunting as a school for Soldiering." 



QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM. 



