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to produce only a few animals of the choicer 

 sorts, and the supply from Ireland continues 

 to diminish, what will our cavalry do ? 



It has been suggested that we could in 

 time of stress draw our troop horses from 

 the domiuion of Canada. These horses have 

 lately been imported in considerable niimbers 

 for omnibus and tramcar work, but judging 

 from those I have seen I should hardly 

 consider them very fit for cavalry remounts. 

 Colonel White, however, who commanded a 

 regiment of horse in that country, found 

 them hardy, active, docile, and surefooted, 

 a combination of virtues which should cer- 

 tainly commend them for this purpose ; while 

 Colonel Soane Jenyns, O.B., some years ago 

 confirmed this estimate by reporting to a 

 Lords' Committee on Horse Supply that 

 Canadians made first-rate troopers, being 

 capital hacks, a little straight in the shoulder 

 (bad enough fault in a hack one would 

 think), and good fencers. He had bought, 



