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The Autobiography Of A Horse, With Fifty Illustrations.

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	AN OLD WAR HORSE                           135
	to the Crimean War. He said he quite enjoyed the train­ing with all the other horses, trotting together, turning together, to the right hand or the left, halting at the word of command, or dashing forward at full speed at the sound
	1937�3
	" We were Swung Through the Air."
	of the trumpet or signal of the officer. He was, when young, a dark, dappled iron gray, and considered very handsome. His master, a young, high-spirited gentle­man, was very fond of him, and treated him from the first with the greatest care and kindness. He told me he thought the life of an army horse was very pleasant; but when it came to being sent abroad over the sea in a great ship, he almost changed his mind.