. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. of a house and unlimberon the roof. As day passed day, the confidence of the young ridergrew. Fie found, as all new riders do, that it is much easierto ride a bare-backed horse than to sit a saddle; and presentlyhe began to feel at home even when riding one horse anddirecting another by his side. Presently he had left theriding school or menage (a riding school in the open), andwas manceuvring dummy limbers across the parade ground,to his own and his otficers satisfaction. The work of the horse-soldier in K


. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. of a house and unlimberon the roof. As day passed day, the confidence of the young ridergrew. Fie found, as all new riders do, that it is much easierto ride a bare-backed horse than to sit a saddle; and presentlyhe began to feel at home even when riding one horse anddirecting another by his side. Presently he had left theriding school or menage (a riding school in the open), andwas manceuvring dummy limbers across the parade ground,to his own and his otficers satisfaction. The work of the horse-soldier in Kitcheners .\rmy wasmore difficult than in ordinary times. For this reason—that he had to deal with untrained horses. All the trainedhorses in the kingdom had been dispatched to the Front,where they were most needed. The horses for the newArmys training were all unmade. Many of them were wholly wild and applied to horses from Canada, but more especiallyto the remounts which the Argentine sent to the Army. Itwas wholly beyond the average Kitchener recruits ability. CONSTRCCTING AN EMPLACEMENT FOR A IlEAyV GLN. io8 Kitchener s A rmy


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