Identifier: horsewar00galt (find matches)
Title: The horse and the war
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney, 1878-1935
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : "Country life"
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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orry, kick, andbite each other. Then, when the day is drawing in and night comes onto cloak the wonders of the Naval Service and Admiralty transport acrossthose perilous waters, he has the animals tied up short. In that way hereduces the chances of trouble should the crossing be bad. All night long a strict vigil is kept by the conducting party. True,the horses are not resting, but they are not giving trouble. They are fidgetyand nonplussed as if wondering what new, strange destiny awaits them. Theydo not settle as resignedly as do the perverse and illogical mules. The lattermay have rebelled at embarking, but, once on board, they become the acmeof good manners and immaculate behaviour. A ships hold might have beentheir home from foalhood. They never heed the steady pulsating throb ofthe ships engines. They could not know of the anxious vigil high up onthe bridge, in the look-out on the foremast or on the gun platform, or of thesleeping troops covering all the space of the mess decks.
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The transport safely docked. Keenness to land in France. 6o THE HORSE AND THE WAR Have you ever thought, one wonders, of these four years of silent,dead-o-night traffic from shore to shore of the English Channel duringwhich hundreds of thousands of war-horses have been carried across in safety ?of the Remount Service which has brought them together from a far distantland, and is now distributing them again into the battle arenas ? Has theaverage Englishman given more than a passing thought to the wonderfulorganization of the Navy which has protected our transports on their everrisky errands ? or of those gallant Captains Courageous and their splendidcrews who have braved for all this time the lurking perils and navigated theirships from safety, through danger with the ever-present chance of disaster,to safety again ? Certainly the Remount Service is conscious of uninterrupted triumphover hidden foes, a triumph which the protecting escort of destroyers andcareful navigation in face of

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