CAVALRY CHARGERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 9 April 1908, Page 3

CAVALRY CHARGERS.

Evil communications corrupt the manners o& horses as. they do those of boys and' men. Horses are very imitative and when they live many of them together, as do cavalry chargers, one that has learned to crib-bite, to wind-suck, "to "weave," er any other bad habit, will teach it to his stable companions. I i heard of one the other day who used to put his front hoofs on the manger whan it came near feeding time. In stables cavalry chargers are very tractable, and the percentage oi vicious ones is small. Horses, however, wilkbe horses, as boys will he boys; and their horse-play sometimes takes an inipleasanfc turn. Am occasional hooligan will slip his head-collar at night and steal his neighbor's corn, or will open the door of the forage barn with ite teeth in search of plunder. Breaking loose, a truant will career madly over the officers' cricket ground, and then -slip and fall <m the cobble-stones on his way back to stables. An old hand, or w» should say an old hoof, at riddng-school will, it is said, fall on purpose at a jump, and, lying on a recruit's leg, will bend the recruit's sword into a pruming-hook. There is a saying in cavalry stables that -two things are not to be 'trusted— women and horses. No doubt almost every man excepts his own mother.

At military tournaments, and especially when preparing' far them, the torses arc hustled about, and get hard knocks, b«t they enter well into the sport, and do their best to help their riders. The contests which they dislike the most are when the men wrestle with each other on their Hacks, or fight with swords against bayonets. The bayonet, though it is only % a mock one, looks very formidable. The army of occupation in Egypt lately gave a small military tournament, ond the thing which pleased the spectators most was to see a mam anil a horse of the* Sixth Inniskilling Dragoons jumping^over a (table which was laid, as if for dinner, and at which the men were sitting. It required, a good deal of patience, gentleness, firmness, and courage to ride the horse so that be went over the table like a bird. Sorely a horse has as greats effect upon a man's character as a mam has upon a horse, and the old Per■sirjt currioulum of education was as good as anything that has taken its place — to ride, a horse, shoot, straight, and tell the truth. — Boy's, Ow<n Paper.

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