. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. terrors of the ridingschool were very realto the most enthusi-astic recruit. Thisgod-like instructorwho sat his horse asthough he was part ofit was very difficult toplease. Fshall nevermake a horseman ofyou. Driver Smith,he said bitterly,until somebody in-vents a horse you canride inside ! • I thought I was getting it all right, sir,said the doleful recruit. All right! scoffed his superior. Why,if there was a looking-glass here, and thathorse could see who was riding him, hewould die of shame ! It was when
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. terrors of the ridingschool were very realto the most enthusi-astic recruit. Thisgod-like instructorwho sat his horse asthough he was part ofit was very difficult toplease. Fshall nevermake a horseman ofyou. Driver Smith,he said bitterly,until somebody in-vents a horse you canride inside ! • I thought I was getting it all right, sir,said the doleful recruit. All right! scoffed his superior. Why,if there was a looking-glass here, and thathorse could see who was riding him, hewould die of shame ! It was when the Kitchener recruit cameinto the open with his charge, that some ofhis painfully acquired confidence began todesert him. He regarded a horse as a beastwhich had an uncontrollable passion forrunning away. In the riding school hiseccentricities in this direction were restrictedby four walls. With the whole world torange in, anything might happen to a horsewith a passion for travel, and on the openspaces, where the recruit learnt to jumphis horse over small obstacles, and to accom-. WHAT kitcheners AKMY HAS DONE IN IRAINING.— ENTRENCHMENTS ON THE EAST COAST MADlfS pany the animal in this exercise, the dangerseemed increased fourfold. The criticismsof his superior were good-natured enough. There was an undercurrent of sarcasmwhich set the whole of the unhappy schoolgrinning, yet with the consciousness thatthey themselves might next be the objectof the riding masters vitriolic men who had never touched a horsefound pleasure and exhilaration in their new-experience. I didnt know there was somuch fun in life, said an ex-typist. Onerecruit ventured to ask a rough-ridingcorporal who was instructing him howto jump what value this traininghad. We shant have to jump hedges withguns, shall we, Corporal? A / tchejiers A nn v 107 He learnt, to his surprise, that something of the sort wasindeed expected of liim. Go the shortest way is the RoyalArtillery motto. A hedge, a ditc
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