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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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ry officer is making a finalinspection prior to approving them for embarkation. A very few he keepsback. He detects a high temperature and the beginnings of respiratory trouble.The last three-mile walk has developed and made evident what had not beensuspected until then. The animal thus attacked must wait for another da^^So, also, must one which shows symptoms of skin irritation—anathema,indeed, and feared greatly for its devastating consequences if disregarded.And after these last necessary formalities have been observed they are readyfor shipment. Mules first, is the order. That is because they are just mules. Out-laws of nature they may be in spite of their tremendous utility and value asaids to the carrying on of modern war, and so they are made to travel steerageas it were. They have to go below stairs in the stalls in the dark lowerholds. To get there they must descend steep gangways from the main deck.Their descent is necessarily undignified, though, after all, could anything
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A quiet crossing to France. 58 THE HORSE AND THE WAR look undignified where no dignity attaches to an animal ? The greatestadmirer of mules—and who that has worked them in the Army does notadmire them ?—will not concede dignity to them. They are just mules.They would not be mules did they not show extraordinary shyness and distrustof the water troughs at which they are invited to drink before being led onboard. They are thirsty and really want water, but they must think in theirqueer thinking machines that some one has poisoned the water, and so theywill not yield to cajolery to drink. They believe all the world is againstthem, and they especially do so when they are reminded that they mustnot spend the rest of their lives looking at the gangway or brow beforeventuring along it from dock to ship. They do not snort or get excited as ahorse does when he makes up his mind to jib and be unpleasant ; theyjust push hard on their toes in the ground, and refuse to be led any further.Of co

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