Officers of the Household Cavalry flushed behind their monocles a fortnight ago, when it was learned that a horse bearing one of the immobile mounted sentries of Whitehall had fallen asleep at its post and collapsed under its rigid, ornately accoutred rider (TIME, May 6).
But the Household Cavalry's chagrin, acute though it was, could not compare to that of officers of the Foot Guards last week when they learned that a scarlet-coated, fur-busbied Scots Guardsman had vanished completely from his post at Buckingham Palace.
The discovery was not made by the ornate Corporal of...
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