WHO WAS TO BLAME ?
A military paper tells how a Yeomanry regiment was recently being put through the drill exercises before the inspecting officer. When the bugle gave the signal to halt, he noticed that the line was badly kept, many of the horses going two or three yards beyond it. The inspector found fault with this, but the excuse was made that the horses, not being so well trained as army horses, could not be stopped so promptly. The commanding officer determined to find out whether horse or men were most to blame, and when a cavalry troop of regulars came into the neighbourhood, he ordered the volunteers to drill with their horses. For a while everything passed off splendidly. When the men were going at an easy trot, suddenly a halt was sounded. The well-trained horses knew the signal, and stopped suddenly. Not so the riders. Scores of them went flying over the horses' heads on the grass, like sacks of corn.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XXVI, 24 December 1898, Page 815
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164WHO WAS TO BLAME ? New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XXVI, 24 December 1898, Page 815
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