Farrier. 
Collar- 
makers, 
and sadler 
sergeants. 
566 MARCHING AT HOME AND ABROAD. 
Limerick and Tarbert road when starting on a 43 mile march, and 
found 4 lbs. of bacon in the centre, a nice lump on a horse’s backbone ! 
The officers must also see that kits if left behind are properly packed 
and stowed away in a safe store; the engineers may strip the roofs off 
your barracks while you are away, without letting you know, or without 
asking you to hand over, and the rain may come in and ruin the kits if 
left there. It has happened to me, and by some extraordinary reason- 
ing I was ordered to make good half the damage, though I had left 
sentries and watchmen over the barracks, and had received no orders 
to hand over and vacate. 
In India the officers should see to the details of carriage for tents 
and baggage, mess traps and cooking utensils (this is often neglected). 
The Farrier must look well to his shoeing, no long toes on rough and 
stony roads, a broken knee on the march is a very bad case. He must 
fit and pack his store shoes, no time on the march for much fitting, 
he should fill his field companion with dressings and physic, and also 
the regimental or battery chests. ‘The government supply is but a 
poor one and none too liberal, so he had better ask the C.O. to buy a 
few simple things, such as carbonate of ammonia, ginger, iodoform, 
nitric, ether, laudanum, camphorated carbolic oil, epsom salts, and 
some extra bandages and medicated lint. He must see to his needles 
and suture wires, weights and scales, and thermometer. He should 
also make up a few balls, two drachms carbonate ammonia, three 
drachms ginger and put them in a tin box, and mix a bottle of simple 
dressing for each shoeing-smith’s satchel. Also he had better have 
two or three hinged shoes ready for the shoeing-smiths to tack on the 
road if necessary. 
The Collar-Maker should make up a few small pads with ties, and a 
set or two of skeleton harness in case of galls. Links and traces will 
sometimes rub from horses pulling unevenly; a few little shields 
of leather, and a few bits of sheep skin with ties should be made up so 
as to be able to pop them on quickly on the road ; he should make up 
a dozen or so ‘‘dealers” or “ Yorkshire boots ;’’ horses will brush at 
times however well shod, and the soft cloth boot is far superior to 
the nasty hard leather things with straps that Collar-Makers delight in 
making. 
What is wanted is merely a square or rectagonal piece of old horse 
clothing, with a tie in the centre to fasten round the leg, the top half 
folded down over the tie. 
The Sergeant-Major should see a box packed up with all writing 
materials and forms that he is likely to require on the road, the Pay- 
Sergeant and the Quarter-Master-Sergeant, if the latter is marching, 
should do the same. In England the Q.-M.-S. will not be on the road, 
but in India he marches with the regiment or battery, or rather a day 
ahead carrying his office with him. 
Marcuine at Hous. 
Orders are sure to be received with the route some days before the 
start, and it is well for the C.O. to ask the firm with whom the regi- 
ment or battery bank to write to their agents at the different towns 
