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Show EARLY LEARN TO RIDE. Explanation for Famous Horseman ship of the Cossacks. Of tho Russian Cossacks a write! cays: "No wonder the Cossack is t famous horseman. At tho nge of 3 ho loaini to rldo astride a hnrso In tho courtyard of his father's house 1 Two years later ho shows himself 1 on horseback In tho village streets 'and excrclsos with Ills joung com-lades. com-lades. No wonder at the ago of 20 ho j scorns almost to be ono flesh with tlie sturdy beast that carries hlui. Under I the presont regime thero are no less than fifty-one regiments of Cossacks, under eleven main tribal divisions. Cl-lef of theso are the CosBacks of the Don. Besides these aro tho Cossacks . of tho Kauhan, Terek, Astrakhan, the Ural, Orenbeig, Siberia, Semlrletchlo tho TranB-Iialkul, the prl-Amur nnd tho Ussurl. Tho last five are lepro-seated lepro-seated In the 0,000 Cossacks reported report-ed to be available for service In .Man churla. The Cossack has his own manual of instructions, Kvcry member mem-ber of the Bipiadron Is a trick rider, lOio could put tho cleverest circus acrobat ac-robat to shame, and tho firing exercises exer-cises Introduce features which only vlever riders with clever animals could perform. On campaign, moro-tver, moro-tver, the Cossack Is particularly useful, use-ful, as he is accustomed to scanty food and oxtreme cold, whllo no better bet-ter forager has yet been discovered lc the armies 6f Kurope." |