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Title: The horse and the war
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney, 1878-1935
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : "Country life"
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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he rough state, before the horse-masters of the RemountService have ironed them out for their work in France. She is a big ship, and her length, except for the interval occupied by herengines and boilers, is used to accommodate the live cargo. The great thing isthat she has come safely through danger zones and that she is at last alongsidethe berth at her destination with the welcome aliens ready for immediatedisembarkation. There is no time lost. You can begin to unload now,says the naval officer to the Remount Officer, and the latters men are onboard and leading off the iirst horses and mules in less time than it takesto write this. The ship has been about twenty days on the journey, and badweather has been experienced, necessitating the closing down of hatches.Moreover, the cleaning-out has had to be carried out under difficulties whichhave grown more formidable as the voyage has lengthened. Below decks theatmosphere is heavy and unhealthy, and the fumes of the disinfectants mingle
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•OjDC< c 3O COS oa 24 THE HORSE AND THE WAR with ammonia gases. The horses are obviously used to what they havehelped to create, and their keenness and alertness show that they have sufferedno more than temporary inconvenience. They seem to know that somethingunusual is going to happen. There is no motion on the ship ; the engineshave ceased to throb, and the movements of the animals in their narrowstalls or pens seem more insistent. They know as well as we know that theyare going to emerge from their imprisonment into the sweet, fresh air and theblinding light of day. The horses know. The mules are distrustful, becauseit is their one thought and principle in life to be suspicious and apprehensive.They fear more trouble. So, out of the unsalubrious, gas-laden air and the forbidding gloom ofthe decks below stairs the first of the horses come quietly and with markeddocility down the sloping brows, or gangways, on to a foreign soil. Theyblink in the sunshine, shake their heads and n

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