IX. MOUNTED POLICE

Army Reserve; a worshipper of _BOBS_,

With whom he stripped the smock from _CANDAHAR_;

Neat as his mount, that neatest among cobs;

Whenever pageants pass, or meetings are,

He moves conspicuous, vigilant, severe,

With his Light Cavalry hand and seat and look,

A living type of Order, in whose sphere

Is room for neither _Hooligan_ nor _Hook_.

For in his shadow, wheresoe'er he ride,

Paces, all eye and hardihood and grip,

The dreaded _Crusher_, might in his every stride

And right materialized girt at his hip;

And they, that shake to see these twain go by,

Feel that the _Tec_, that plain-clothes Terror, is nigh.

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