THE A UTUMN MANCE UVRES OF 187 5 . 13 



with my own regiment and two other cavalry 

 regiments, encamped for some ten days in a place 

 called Colonv Boo-, near Aldershot. It was a 

 time to be ever ruefully remembered by all who 

 took part in them, by reason of its cheerless, wet 

 misery ; for during the ten days we were there, I 

 can most truthfully assert that it rained almost 



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incessantly day and night, and what, even in a dry 

 summer, was always more or less of a ' bog ' became 

 a ' lake.' Until we had been there for some days, 

 exposed to all this inclemency of the weather, the 

 horses had not so much as even a sino-le blanket 

 to cover them, and yet, notwithstanding this ex- 

 posure, though it is true they were affected by the 

 cold and wet (and it was cold and wet) in other 

 ways, colds and coughs were unheard of. 



Again, at the same time, an officer of my 

 regiment had of necessity to take out with him 

 into camp (he being at the time short of horses) an 

 old and favourite charger, which, at the time of her 

 going out from the stables in barracks, was suffering 

 from a severe cold. In a few days she was quite 

 well asfain. 



Another friend of mine, a captain in another 

 regiment, was, on his first going out with us into 

 camp, suffering from an acute attack of neuralgia, 

 but he was quite well in less than twenty-four 



