Horses on Board Ship. 



" After dinner the horses to be fed with 

 hay for an hour. 



" EVENING STABLES. 



" Rake the stalls well out, sweep up, 

 sponge nostrils, etc., as in ' Morning Stables.' 

 Water and then feed with oats or bran as 

 ordered. Stable men to feed horses with 

 remaining portion of hay." 



When remounts are sent without troops, 

 there is generally one helper of the ordinary 

 workman or street loafer type to from fifteen 

 to twenty animals. The superintendence of 

 these men, who are sometimes foreigners 

 ignorant of English, is generally entrusted 

 to a head-foreman and three under-foremen, 

 supposing that there are about 500 horses on 

 board. Instead of having a landsman to act 



