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their dusty cracks, and their cobwebbed 

 corners, and remember the diphtheroid 

 bacillus to be found there. Cast your minds 

 back to our sick lines at the Curragh in the 

 third week of our training last year. No 

 accurate record of numbers of sick was kept, 

 but I am sure there were 60 or 70 horses 

 there out of our 450 horses which should 

 have been on parade. Will you, the South 

 Irish Horse, act the part of the modern 

 Hercules, and resolve to conquer in this 

 labour? You have the river handy, as we 

 had — nay, you have an ocean of fresh air, 

 and streams of sunlight, only waiting to be 

 let in, and your horses in their prison-cells 

 eagerly waiting for them. These are better 

 than any river, if you first thoroughly clean 

 out and disinfect the whole of the inside of 

 your stables. It is original work ; no one 

 has ever before, as far as I know, pleaded 

 for the light of day and the fresh air to be 

 let in to the horse in his hours of darkness. 

 No regiment has had such a chance to be 

 first to do something for the health and 



