BY
CROSBIE GARSTIN
LIEUTENANT, 1st KING EDWARD'S HORSE
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1919,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE MEMORY OF
MY BROTHER
CAPTAIN DENIS NORMAN GARSTIN,
D.S.O., M.C.
ORDER OF ST. ANNE OF RUSSIA
(10th ROYAL HUSSARS)
KILLED IN ACTION
NEAR ARCHANGEL, RUSSIA
AUGUST 17th, 1918
"You gallop on unfooted asphodel...
And wave beyond the stars that all is well."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. The "Ferts"
II. Otto
III. A. E.'S Bath and Brock's Benefit
IV. The Messless Mess
V. Climate at the Front
VI. The Padre
VII. The Riding-Master
VIII. National Anthem
IX. Horse Sense
X. "Convey," the Wise It Call
XI. Our Mess President
XII. Funny Cuts
XIII. Leave
XIV. "Harmony, Gents!"
XV. The Mule and the Tank
XVI. War Paint
XVII. The Pinch of War
XVIII. The Regimental Mascot
XIX. War Vegetation
XX. A Change of Front
XXI. Antonio Giuseppe
XXII. "I Spy"
XXIII. A Faux Pas
XXIV. Mon Repos
XXV. "Fly, Gentle Dove"
XXVI. There and Back
XXVII. Hot Air
XXVIII. The Convert
XXIX. A Best Cure
XXX. The Harriers (I)
XXXI. The Harriers (II)
XXXII. The Camera Cannot Lie
XXXIII. Lionel Trelawney
XXXIV. The Booby Trap
XXXV. The Phantom Army
THE MUD LARKS
When I was young, my parents sent me to aboarding school, not in any hopes of getting meeducated, but because they wanted a quiet home.
At that boarding school I met one Frederick DelanoMilroy, a chubby flame-coloured brat who had no claimsto genius, excepting as a littérateur.
The occasion that established his reputation with thepen was a Natural History e