. A book of mortals ; being a record of the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call the lower animals. Animal intelligence; Animals, Folklore. THE HORSE IN WAR AND PEACE. OR how long the horse will maintain its present supremacy in the pleasures of humanity is a question for the Jockey and the Automobile Clubs ; but at the present moment there is no doubt that both in pleasures and pains, it holds its own. Let us take the last first, and consider the 400,000 and odd horses who lost their lives, or were wounded in the South African war, those horses to whom a memorial
. A book of mortals ; being a record of the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call the lower animals. Animal intelligence; Animals, Folklore. THE HORSE IN WAR AND PEACE. OR how long the horse will maintain its present supremacy in the pleasures of humanity is a question for the Jockey and the Automobile Clubs ; but at the present moment there is no doubt that both in pleasures and pains, it holds its own. Let us take the last first, and consider the 400,000 and odd horses who lost their lives, or were wounded in the South African war, those horses to whom a memorial drinking trough was lately put up, which bears this inscription :— In Memory of the Mute Fidelity of the 400,000 Horses Killed and Wounded At the call of their Masters During the South African War 1899—1902 In a cause of which they knew nothing This Fountain is erected By a reverent Fellow creature. It is a large number 400,000. The amount of pain which it represents is terrible to think of. For it is pain, lightened by no sense of patriotism ; not even by the dogged courage which bids a man die fighting hard for a cause of which he. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929. London : W. Heinemann
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