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Title: The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney
Subjects: Great Britain. Army Horses
Publisher: London Country life
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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pot whenthe opportunity should arise. When I saw the writer of the letter ridingI knew he had told his girl the truth, and \Ahen I saw him in the stable Ilonged to be a mule ! To return to the disposal of cast Army horses, the reader will understandthat a local auctioneer is requested to hold a sale, which is duly advertisedso that prospective buyers may attend on the da^^ As a preliminary to theirleave-taking of the Army each caster is branded on the near shoulderwith a C indicating that he has absolutely and finally been given hisre-entry into civil life. Then the rather doleful procession of a score or so,a man riding one and leading another, sets off in charge of an officer, \\ho iscarrying with him to the place of sale his authority and all other documents.For, of course, you never do anything in the Army without the assistance ofmany documents ! It follows that the party is one to arrest the attention ofthe passer-by, w^ho may not realize that the animals are the outcasts of the
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ii8 THE HORSE AND THE WAR Army. For one thing the pace is funereal, which is suggested by the slowmarch and the drooping heads. You may not hurry the lame, the halt, andthe blind, to which may be added the broken-winded; and so the pace of thislittle procession with its suggestion of real pathos is that of its slowest unit.The most unsophisticated onlooker notices that they are not the strong andhealthy, bright-eyed animals that usually leave the Depot for the train en routefor overseas. He notices the knife-board back, the staring ribs and the sunkeneyes of the chronic debility case ; the shuffling amble of the incurably lame ;and the swollen greasy legs of the heavy draught horse. The presence ofone or two others he may not so well understand, for stone-blindness is notat once apparent to the passer-by, the broken-winded riding-horse has nooutward signs at the moment to indicate his troubles, and the one condemnedfor vice is apparently at the high-water mark of robust health. Natura

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