. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. MLLES, WHICH ARE NOW BEING LSED FOR GUN ,ARE PROVERLilAl LVOBSTINATE, AS THOSE WHO HAD TO TRAIN THEM OLICKLV FOUND OUT. mechanics, shop assistants, and deliverymen—anything; and evervthinj; that vouplease. But thev werehome and atlome in theirsaddles and said nothing;their otficers saidi 11 1 e enough tothem. Thev camein across what hadonce been turf;wheeled with tighttraces; lialted, un-liooked; the wiseteams stumped offto their pickets,and, behold, thesix guns were leftprecisely wherethey
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. MLLES, WHICH ARE NOW BEING LSED FOR GUN ,ARE PROVERLilAl LVOBSTINATE, AS THOSE WHO HAD TO TRAIN THEM OLICKLV FOUND OUT. mechanics, shop assistants, and deliverymen—anything; and evervthinj; that vouplease. But thev werehome and atlome in theirsaddles and said nothing;their otficers saidi 11 1 e enough tothem. Thev camein across what hadonce been turf;wheeled with tighttraces; lialted, un-liooked; the wiseteams stumped offto their pickets,and, behold, thesix guns were leftprecisely wherethey should havebeen left to thefraction of an could see thewind blowing thelast few drops ofw et from eachleather muzzle-cover at exactlythe same was all old known evolutions, taken un-consciously in the course of their davs worl:bv men well abreast of it. Kitchcnier s A rm i I iq. >XET EXERCISE IN IIVDE PARK. The difficulty ofcreating 130 newbatteries of artil-lery was guns tiiem-selves could bereadily cast, butthe training otmen and officers—especially offi-cers—was a muchmore complicatedbusiness than get-ting ready thepersonnel of theinfantry. In thefirst six months ofthe war the chiefsof the ac-complished won-ders —? how greatJthose wondersvwere history will^testify. The Cavalry Gene r a l l v Is pe a k i n g, al-though reseryeregiments wereformed, and were
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