ROUGH RIDER SAMPLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6625, 17 February 1900, Page 4

ROUGH RIDER SAMPLES.

"I am leaving a good billet," said one trooper—a Christchurch boy born and bred and one of the best men in the Troop physically, and in all other essentials. " But then, if all we chaps stayed at home, the Empire would goto

!" A rough, blunt way of expressing it, perhaps, but none the less spoken from the heart, and indicative of that fighting spirit which is the noblest heritage a British father can bequeath to his sons.

Another trooper, from South Canterbury this time, who just about a year ago attained his majority, remarked : " I have iusfc got a telegram from my brother telling me to come back, as the business is going to the devil. lam going to telegraph back,' Let it go ;' and I will advertise it for sale." Which he there and then did. By hard work and application to study he had worked up a successful business, but he showed not the slightest feelings of compunction in relinquishing the result of years of effort to do his duty to the Queen.

Another trooper, whilst narrating about ;a week ago the facts in connection with a new addition to the camp in the person of a trooper who, last year, had made a profit of £ISOO off his property, and had offered to bear all the expense of his own equipment and give £250 to the War Fund, remarked:

—" This sort of thing almost takes one's breath away, and yet if I owned the whole of New Zealand I feel I would give it all up to go to the front! "