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CHAPTER VI. 



Our Cavalry boos* to be tested during peace, and its discipline 

 improved. 



Seeing that our cavalry horses have become 

 deteriorated since the last war, while in that 

 they displayed much delicacy and perished in 

 consequence in great numbers, we should while 

 peace continues, subject our present cavalry 

 horses to a practical test calculated to prove 

 which class can and which cannot be depended 

 on for carrying their riders fully equipped 

 through a campaign. I am glad to hear that 

 our cavalry is about to be encamped, but re- 

 gret to learn that their horses are to be covered 

 in when at the picket-post. If this expense 

 has now become necessary, what clearer evi- 

 dence is needed to show how much our horses 

 have fallen off in constitutional vigour, seeing 



