Troops were passing the salute ing point for over an hour and a halt. very unit appeared—serviceable arrayed in full field equipment. Weapons and tools, as well as clothing and harness; all showed "he hall mark of thoroughness. Not a sign could be seen of anything '"'got up for effect,'' and the General stood erect, the embodiment of health and good spirits, watching every detail with the shrewd piercing eye that at times sparkles with the delight of a rollicking schoolboy, and in a moment is fixed on some object with the inscrutable stare of a soldier assessing the military value of © somebody or something seen only by the expert tactician, The display of gymnastics which followed the drill had little of stage effect, bu: was designed for field service—scaling walls, leaping_ditches, springing from or up to heights, balancing on slender moving objects. And the competitors had no special atiietic dress for these performances; they tackled each obstacle as they would do in active service, and the alacrity with which an 8-ft. brick wall and a higher spiked paling was negotiated was truly amazing.
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