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"with every precaution taken to insure 

 " ventilation, the doors and windows of the 

 "stable being left open day and night, 

 " and but very few being placed in each 

 " stable, they nearly all suffer from coughs 

 "and colds, which generally end in stran- 

 " gles. During the autumn maneuvers of 

 " 1875, I was with my own regiment, and 

 "two other cavalry regiments, encamped 

 " for some days, in a place called Colony 

 " Bog, near Aldershot. It was a time to 

 "be remembered very ruefully by all who 

 " took part in them, by reason of its cheer- 

 "less, wet misery, for during the ten days 

 " we were there, I can truthfully assert, 

 "that it rained almost incessantly, day 

 " and night, and what, even in a dry sum- 

 "mer, was always more or less of a bog. 



