. The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig. t draught, which is not as heavy and imposing as theheavy agricultural horses of the United Kingdom ; and the fight draughtwith bone, size and activity for the Field Artillery and quick-moving horsetransport. This latter is the war-horse that has made history, and probablythere were twenty of him to one of any other kind. He would not haveimpressed you then as he moved softly and quietly off the brow. Youwould, perhaps, have laughed at anything less beautiful and inspirin
. The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig. t draught, which is not as heavy and imposing as theheavy agricultural horses of the United Kingdom ; and the fight draughtwith bone, size and activity for the Field Artillery and quick-moving horsetransport. This latter is the war-horse that has made history, and probablythere were twenty of him to one of any other kind. He would not haveimpressed you then as he moved softly and quietly off the brow. Youwould, perhaps, have laughed at anything less beautiful and inspiring, andyou might have wondered at the boldness and seeming incompetence of ourbuyers on the other side. He was shoeless, long-haired, tousled-maned,ragged-hipped, and he almost dragged his tail on the ground, so long and fulland caked with dirt was it. His neck had gone light and mean, his backbonestuck up like a knifeboard, and his ribs were pushing through his neglectedhide. Such was our war-horse in the rough, a true and faithful representationof the raw material rendered thus unpresentable by the flesh-weariness of. The Field Gun Horse from America on his arrival-- shoeless, long-haired,tousled-maned, ragged-hipped. rT^i
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