THE HORSE IN WAR AND PEACE 



OR how long the horse will maintain its 

 present supremacy in the pleasures of 

 humanity is a question for the Jockey and 

 the Automobile Clubs ; but at the present 

 moment there is no doubt that both in 

 pleasures and pains, it holds its own. 

 Let us take the last first, and consider the 400,000 and 

 odd horses who lost their lives, or were wounded in the 

 South African war, those horses to whom a memorial 

 drinking trough was lately put up, which bears this 

 inscription : — 



In Memory of the Mute Fidelity 



of the 400,000 Horses 



Killed and Wounded 



At the call of their Masters 



During the South African War 



1899 — 1902 



In a cause of which they knew nothing 



This Fountain is erected 



By a reverent Fellow creature. 



It is a large number 400,000. The amount of pain which 

 it represents is terrible to think of. For it is pain, lightened 

 by no sense of patriotism ; not even by the dogged courage 

 which bids a man die fighting hard for a cause of which he 



