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Before closing this little book, it may be as well to present the reader with a few more illustrations, and a brief explanation concerning them.
The following illustration of a piping study is from the original, which was designed at the time that Great Britain was in the thick-or, rather, at the waning point-of the Boer War. It will be too much repetition for me to describe over again the methods to be adopted in piping these figures, but briefly the top left-hand figure was intended to be that of the ever-popular Baden-Powell, watching for the relief column which eventually accomplished its purpose. It is needless to describe the central figure in the top line, as he will be a backward eight-year old schoolboy who does not recognise, or feel a certain thrill of pride at the very utterance of the name of, "Bobs. " The equestrian figure on the right was originally intended for the Earl of Airlie, for he bravely met his death when charging the enemy at the head of his Lancers. The remainder of the design will explain itself.