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Many a lean British Cavalry officer lolling in his Pall Mall or Piccadilly Club, many a ruddy, fox-hunting squire taking a pull at the Tuke Holdsworth 1908, exploded apoplectically last week as they thumbed through the Illustrated London News. What pulled them up snorting was a series of pictures of old, crippled, starved horses almost too decrepit to stand, all of whom had done gallant War-time service. Most pitiable were two photographs of a famished, broken-kneed old black mare which had once seen proud service with the nth Hussars, a bay cavalry gelding with "all his joints...
...week's pageant he returned to his own sex. As barber he vigorously plied lather brush and wooden razor on the faces of Equator neophytes before toppling them into the canvas tank erected on the Kenilworth Castle's deck. In the midst of the ruckus little Wendy Tuke, eight-weeks-old baby, was brought to the barber's chair. Nervous passengers crowded forward, wondering whether baby Tuke was to be shaved and ducked with the others. Barber Wales contented himself with sprinkling a little soapy water on Baby Tuke's puckered face, conferring...
...much, not how little, the students know." I should have no fear of questions being unreasonable put by a wise, common-sense professor like this, whereas some learned men expect a student to reach in a few months the level of their own mature knowledge. - D. Hack Tuke, F. R. C. P., before the British...