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11and timber and hessian.In a shed adjoining that where the troops are resting there are hundreds of horses that have been hurridly brought from the country by train this morning.They are to be shipped to France being required by the Army almost as much as human beings.They are wanted for the guns, for general service, for the Red Cross, for [indecipherable] transport and for officers.Without them it would be impossible for the army to maintain its most vital communications in the danger zone. Many of them will replace others that have done their duty nobly and have gone west.In the days of peace these patient creatures had well nigh been forgotten by man but now that it is war they are dragged into the shambles to aid that superior and overmastering being who, while scornfully declaring them
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