The Mud Larks

CROSBIE GARSTIN
LIEUTENANT, 1st KING EDWARD'S HORSE
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE MEMORY OF MY BROTHER CAPTAIN DENIS NORMAN GARSTIN, D.S.O., M.C. ORDER OF ST. ANNE OF RUSSIA (10th ROYAL HUSSARS) KILLED IN ACTION NEAR ARCHANGEL, RUSSIA AUGUST 17th, 1918
You gallop on unfooted asphodel... And wave beyond the stars that all is well.
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THE MUD LARKS
When I was young, my parents sent me to a boarding school, not in any hopes of getting me educated, but because they wanted a quiet home.