Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pleasant riding horses, but rough cynical beasts." They were— "busters, many of them, I think, Belgian stock, and after seeing them one can understand why Anna of Cleves was offended when she got word that Henry likened her to a Flemish mare. . . . Let no one who likes horses enter a mounted branch." The sun rose early in the Breton summer, twilight ran long and the dark came late. But — "I wanted to write you a long letter, but picture to yourself — I have been in the kitchen from 6 this morning till 8 to-night, and then had to do a minimum of shaving." "But the stable boss made us work right along up to 9:3O. I went on guard at 10, walked post until 12, and then slept or tried to sleep till 4, and then up again on post. The day after you are stable guard, you are stable police, so all day Friday I was hard at it as stable police." "At 12 I had to get up for a couple of hours to unload a truck." "I expected to read them that night, but had to work for the mess-sergeant until twelve.Then we got up at 3 :y the next morning to make an early start." "There is a deal of carrying to be done in the army, officers' baggage from billet to billet and that sort of thing, and privates do all the carrying." "Monday night, gas and pistol drill until 8:3O by which time it was dark; Tuesday night, stable guard; Wednesday night, watering horses and drill until dark; and Thursday and Friday we were out day and night on a sort of manoeuvre; and Saturday night I had to go over my belongings in order to turn in some stuff. There were a few between times early in the week, but I had to spend them in polishing my bits and stirrups." Novel activities these, and in novel quantities. But we see him attacking them with, at least, a ready will and a cheerfulness which never stumbles....