A SUBALTERN IN SOUTH AFRICA.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J
SIR,—The following extract from a letter written by a Subaltern in South Africa may serve to show that a Subaltern does not mind bard work if the work is interesting and responsibility is attached to it :— " I am hard at work training our scouts, which means teaching them topography, maps, the compass, elementary astronomy, tracking, and no end of other small things. One will find the difference going back to an infantry regiment, with not a quarter of the work to do, and no interest and responsibility as one has here. I have learnt more here than I should in ten years with
the regiment. They say once M.I. always and I quite agree with it. It absolutely will spoil one, though I suppose one will soon drop back again into the groove."
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