CHAPTER IV. 



BEEEDING ARMY HORSES.* 



We have little idea in times of peace, 

 when it is often difficult to dispose satis- 

 factorily of any light animal not of the 

 highest class, how great would be the demand 

 for any kind of horse during and after an 

 European war. Possibly before the next occurs 

 motor-power will have become fully estab- 

 lished ; but even then the demand for horses 

 for the army would not be much diminished, 

 and the supply even more difficult, since 

 fewer would be bred. I well remember 

 buying some ponies on Dartmoor some six 

 or eight years after the Eranco-German -war, 

 which so sent up the price of horses for 



* This Chapter was written the year preceding the 

 outbreak of the South African War. 



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