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mean is ditched and does not come out livered the message, but the major over I might get some enjoyment how he can ”
rascal.” after the first violent efforts to pull merely hooted good-naturedly. “When out of him to repay me for the “Where did you get him, Eve?”
you for it out, a mule will become discour- you go up to the guns again, ser- grief he's caused me.” “Gave a dealer seventy pounds for
and quit, whereas a horse will geant major, present my compli- Three days later, the battery pull- him. Hes been knocked up a bit—
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: in try over and over and over again; ments to Captain Cowling and ex- ed out for Germany, on the heels of shins bucked and a tendon hurt—
E—— “hi be he will try every time he is asked. press my thanks for his friendly the retreating German Army. When, but I've had him fired, and now he's
FIRST a spare charger of one of your troop And this was a gallant, sporting warning, but add that I'll give Sal- at last, they had passed through the sound enough to serve me as a hun-
officers. | Sgplly 8 © hoik vuieh appealed io vage a Sryout. He's new to the battle area into a calm and lovely ter. I can't afford such a horse as
“I know there wait for me , “No; he's a remount, wing.” man. He had been reared among war, but it's been my experience countryside Cowing mounted Salvage your mare.”
(The common lot of all) | Cowing’s critical glance over hunters and had learned to love that even a horse can grow %ac- and rode him at the head of the “Ill give you a fine hunter one of
Sorrow and toll and weariness and loss the trooper’s mount and he saw those that never refused. So he customed to warfare. battery. And he had to admit he these a wedding
Before the long nightfall. Fn a lust. Wilh hv Sous With cking up and Goodwin rested a week at the had never ridden a more tractable gift, Eve, I have some yearlings
'He ver-colored chestnut nursing back wounded wagon lines; then he rode Salvage horse. Before the battery had reach- coming along.” Cowing got
But, ere. I bend sy head ‘about sixteen hands high, with a or exhausted horses by up to the battery position. ed Cologne, Cowing’s old resentment mare, walked over to “the girrs
Before griefs to come, grand front, the best of shoulders the wagon trains of other batteries. “Rather hot and bothered, eh?" against the horse had vanished. ' mount and felt the off side of the
Greist we svime Joy to. kww, some: song | auiriaptecdble limbs. His head The chestnut was without brand Cowing greeted him. “It's five miles After four years of the depression horse's ump. He could feel two
a sing & | as regal and held high; his tail or hoof mark, but on his upper gum from the wagon lines to the guns of war there was the vital necessity long scars in the silky hide. “It
ere my lips grow dumb. ‘was arched, It would have been Cowing found tatooed the mark and I'll lay you a Quart of wiitky {for a change wind the Breish mounted Jon | SEI Poasitle, 3 muttered,
: i me warmly 10 live: ‘impossible to say whether or not he “9-L. “A fresh remount,” he de- you've covered eight miles en roufe.” units quickly found it. As quickly “but I think I know this horse.”
Sri We wari 10 Jove ‘was a thoroughbred, but at any rate cided, viewing the animal's splendid ‘““He's a devil, I'll admit, Cowing. as the stock could be rested and got He went to the animal's head
Te RS ve. og (he was, obviously, full of the best condition. ““Too high in flesh to However, he's got to learn to like in shape again the division held a opened his mouth—and found “9-L"
S Jue On Dunqu Swe anol years | blood. ‘have been on the western front very it, and I'm the boy to teach him, horse show and Salvage won the tattooed on the upper gum.
vee Well, luck to you both," long. Yes, I'll keep him.” ‘Wish you'd ride him back to the blue ribbon for jumping and confor- ‘Tll be shot if it isn't Salavge!”
“Oh, give me golden grain | Cowing d sadly. He patted the, He saddled the chestnut next wagon lines for me.’ mation. He won many a point-to- he declared.
Enough for scanty years, Chestnut’s wet neck with his left morning, mounted him and rode him “Ts that an order or a request, point race, too, with Cowing up, “You know my horse?”
Garned in memory's storehouse. 'hand and held his right up to the around the wagon lines. The horse sir?” never refusing @ jump, never run- “I rode him in France and Ger-
Then shall age (trooper. “Mind that interdiction had a fine mouth; he did not pull; he “Request—naturally.” ning off, seemingly enjoying it as many, Eve. In those days he was,
Be reft of half her fears. fire. (had a fast walk, a long springy trot “Request denied,” Cowing retorted much as did his rider. without doubt, the finest hunter I
‘Best always,” Troo Brandon and an easy gallop, manners | promptly. “I wouldn't ride him back Six joyous months in Germany ever threw a leg over. He had a
‘Out of the lovely past murmured and was off. were perefct. “A finished . hunter,” for a hundred unds. Frankly, and then the battery was demobil- marvelous mouth, perfect manners"
I shall have builded me | Cowing stared after him, then Cowing decided, and set him at a Goodw'n, I'm af) of him.” ized and sent home. The battery and was fast.’
A Teasare-nouse of beauty, where to strolled back to his observation | wagon pole. The chestnut hopped “You're getting jumpy, my boy,” horses were all to be sold to the “That's my horse” Eve declared
B well 3 | to observe his shells falling on Mon- over it instantly. Goodwin replied easily. “However, Germans, so Cowing had to say Proudly. ° me about him.”
sweet serenity. chy-le-Preux, a village that perched | He named his horse “Salvage.” A there's an ammunition pack train good-by to Salvage, and he did it “After the race,” he evaded. He
—Annie Sophia Waples, in the Woman's like a mushroom on a low new major took over the battery Over on the road yonder; I'll ride over with @lump inhis throat, He hoped shrank from telling her that her
Magazine hill that must be taken at any cost, that night and occupied the obser- and send him back with one of the some wel-to-do German might get mount was the same horse her broth-
since it afforded the enemy a splen- vation post by day, so Cowing was muleteers.” him and use him as such a horse er had been riding when he got a
S——— did position from which to observe relegated to his old job as officer in He climbed back on Salvage—and deserved to be used. shell to himself and that two of his
WILD HORSES ‘the terrain for miles on each side command of the wagon lines. The at that instant it pleased a battalion He had little joy in his home- friends had met the same fate. The
Sa spa (of it. A dozen batteries were play- following day Guemappe, a e Of German artillery threé¢ miles away coming. Nearly all his old friends Story might unnerve her; throw her
me horses are like beautiful wo- ing on it and some of the stuff that still held out on ht (to open on the Forty-fifth Battery. had been sacrificed in the war; high Off her race, Why tell her of the
men; once seen they are never for- | was big. ‘was won and the enemy back Cowing heard the first shell coming income taxes had cut deeply into horse's single bad habit, when there
gotten. They have a quality all After a while he saw the cavalry beyond a ridge that extended south, and he knew that it was going to be the income his parents had left him Was no possibility that it would re.
thelr own, and to such a nit | cherge from the low wooden swale so atdusk Cowing brought the teams a close one. and he could no longer afford to assert itself?
on aud affection of a true horse- and gallop the village. When up to move the battery to a new “Down, Goodwin!" he shouted, and maintain a town house. On the _ He smiled up at her. “Well, Eve,
Ha horse lover are given in- Were wi two hundred yards of ft | position just back of the ridge. threw himself flat on his face. A sec- other hand, he shrank from return- I'll tell you this much. If we have
stantly | the artillery fired lifted and the dust| He rode Salvage and when, in the ond later the shell whizzed over and ‘ne to the family seat in Devon, for No bad luck this race lies between
vage was that sort of horse. and smoke over Monchy-le-Preux dim starlight, they crossed the burst twenty feet beyond. He turned Eve Brandon was his neighbor there YOu and me. I don’t think there's
; Senior subaltern of the settled. He saw the Lancers going ground over which the cavalry had and glanced over his shoulder. —and she was engaged to another another entry we need worry about.”
Hotty f Battery, Field Ar- in and wondered what their losses charged, Salvage was again smitten In the dim starlight Salvage, rider- man. | “How, nice!” she replied.” “I shal
ery, found him. t the time Would be in comparison with those with the terror that had sent him less, was galloping to the rear and However, since he was without a enjoy beating you no end. Really,
Cowing was conducting the fire of Of an infantry assault—wondered if out of Monchy-le-Preux. the second shell was exploding a profession and knew nothing of | Major Cowing, you've been very dis-
her 29 te tery, ort onE six shells a little Brandon had been lucky. | See the sight of dead men little beyond the first, One, two, trade, eventually he decided to fill |@greeable.”
ts tit vil of -| He had a particular interest in the and the smell of blood made him ex- three, four, in orderly progression, in his idle days doing the one thing “I shall not beating you,
RE it spe; well for | vex There Was a gil in England-- tremely nervous, but it was the sight ‘the shells fell in front of the guns he loved to do—breeding, achoos, | but—I shall certainly tryor nS pro”
besuty ao quality of the horse that e Brandon's Eve, and, of dead horses, with stiff, outstretch- One, two, three, four; another gun | ing, finishing and selling hunters | 1sed. “But let us cease bickering
2 under circumstances should the gods of war spare him, ed legs, that drove him into a frenzy | dropped them twenty yards in the and blooded stock. Riding to hounds There goes the bugle call.” :
a attracted Cowing’s attention from Cov had a dream of courting Eve of terror. |rear of the guns. One, two, three, (was a pleasure dear to his heart, “I Suggest you put a large bet
: Brandon aud MAIYINE Ne He He refused to leap over them or [0VF: @ third dropped them off —and he was a member of the Dart- 9own on my horse,” she teased.
was ri up had known her all his e; she had ty pass close to them and the (to the right One, two, three, moor Hunt. So, after six months “Sorry, Eve, but I've bet a thous-
n Joa uyat ran past the bat- been the excuse for his first case of |,» io. the new bat ton P| four; a fourth gun dropped them on , he returned to his farm. and pounds—every penny I can
SN it, a BERVY | PUES teas uaa Ne, Haver got over it. | vejopeq ito ane long Battle between Mepert HAT ted t ho a ale Tit du fie wit Not really ? e
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aw the Movi However, it was —a Sellant sporting who rode | MOEE and rider. of youd a OC- the gun crew. “Clear out!” hounds; that such ob hd nd! “Really, Why not, when I know
than for the Free b pw lbh Rng ocd ver she sa nem; | 4S phlegmate cold-blood: | prov pede I A mEnow | Loud pe the Soneite He army, | hat Se mo I~ Jot det po!
ing to relinquish command to his a girl whom, the fact that | 4 and phlegmatic r horses cnem even if [th ge TI bg "she We oy io
junior while he ran out to the sunk- he loved her ( he knew she was P2id 10 attention tothe grim the Ey tos ie xis pwn! Ww) lors. ie breeding of hors. 1, tO nore fin
| wreck fi ‘es had languished, but Cowing ‘And she's a tho
en road and hailed the man. aware of the passion), he had joyed “63 ning, SE owithitssd ‘on them. The Forty-fifth Battery that not even a great war could kill | enough to have been a stake hers
crossroads about four hunderq vi |e ene against or hunt | the battery was in its new position | "as, enclosed in a sate of Leaving the love of liorses inbofn in Engiish- oO Fd hte at
ahead, my lad!" he shouted. +A down in Devon. = He loved her, but MAB and fought it out again, salvo the square. was coptract | to make it hard ure going
salvo every minute. Mind your not sufficiently to “throw” a "race | Stumbling into shell holes, climbing ne knew som of bis guns c Hound | Jen who had not known horses in | you she a ty wit tm
: d | you,” she murmured. ““And I
step and you can get through be. for her, and she would have despised °Ub STUMDIng in again ‘with Sal-|to pe destrayed. Thor mae Cath [Givil Ne had gui acquaipicd with road ree
. i , yed There was no ‘ | hurt sGfficient] ”
oven saivos—if that beautiful brute him if he had. A good sort and | eiStne cess, "eR he encounter- for it but'to “do a bunk.” He EO | roruen to ri ny (OW, With thelr .p hall lose,” he tod her. 1
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Hello, Cowing—I mean, how do and of course the little fool would Knew horses, knew that horses, like sate off on a flank, they crouched in why nadSont cipeSnin and by men «Because this horse of yours is a
Jou , sir! trooper greeted be killed ad break her heart. accustomed to any- go ghell hole and watched their guns played it; p Yi | devil horse. He always wasa h
, suddenly remembering he was It seemed only yetserday since he 'DiR8, and he was confident that peing smashed the same was true of fox-hunting of i) omen to men" = 3 joe
a private addressing a senior subalt- had seen Willie pounding along at Ume o70 hatience would cure Sal-| "Goodwin had got that first shell to “oo Roln hoiat racing. good “A change of climate and
Cowing when: the Iota grasped the The oumgate a Ba po at | horse was 00 send, had too, [IMSeIf and once more Salvage had mares that were from sneha rg MOY ave exercised the jinx Kve
! : ’ | . Cowing suggested, rode take
animal and held him steady. ‘death’ and the master of the hung | much quality Plus the high intelli- might be wounded so padly he would | LR F © e-quarters orbupbred and, | place in the parade tothe post Cow-
I'm not ing ut here, en? Willie, had cut off a paw from the fox, dip: | Fr0¢, IOC CUTE Of his thorough- have to be but he knew NS a hat ing followed last.
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You could have got a Commission’ | the hoy as CX he death S685 ng fought It out with Hl a Cena | done. orcover, had the horse been |, 3%, VO to faite fo Hy stallion starters and as they on Sov
ged. “I'm twenty,” he defended. “I blooded him for good ‘and all. That | 108t fre could force the horse to oo creamed. ulos price, a thoroughbred mare gill (ON he eure amy Sowing
wanted to go when I was eighteen was war. Cowing wished he could 9° 88 he Pleased, but it. was too] Ihe first lime I.get back to: thei that lad been bred in the purple 19 vhat “Eve Brand
but Iwas frail—had a touch of T.B., weep. ‘much work. Regretfully he aban- Wagen lines I'll blow his brains out,” She had great speed but early in | would be second. on on Salvage
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so the doctors said.” | Salvage and went back to the Cowing decided. “He's a devil horse, her racing career as a two-year-old | ered
“Hum-m-m! Well, they're not so Late in the afternoon he saw a old battery horse he had been riding Sent by the devil to kill my pals” she had taken a spill, and the fall | ttle Tor Tn Sa, the
particular now. And I wish, for DOFS¢ break from the ruins of Mon- Salvage had galloped into mis _ They shifted the three remaining had made her timid. As a race mare, Over stone alle tone water
your sister's sake, you were net qt, Chy-le-Preux. Strraight across the life. guns to a new position before morn- therefore, she was not desirable. putt FO rg
here, What's your regiment?” shellpocked battlefield he gallopedat When Bradshaw, youngest subalt- Ing; three replacements came up the She was very large, weighing near- pA pri went
“Ninth Lancers, sir full speed to the crossroads. He ern in the battery, saw Cowing on following night and the war went on. !y twelve h pounds and stand- pegope hy Wey grou
““You may omit the military eti. Missed the harassing fire and turned his old horse, he said: “Hello, what's Cowing became a major. It was a Dg Sixteen hands high, powerful, maria turn. © The Mg
quettee and address me as an old 4OWR the sunken road up which the wrong with Salvage?” month before he saw the wagon lines fast beautifully mannered. Cowing wing P, (clof vthe- frat
friend. What the devil are you do- Ninth Lancers had marched in the “Too nervous for a charger,’ Cow- 88ain. And there on the picket line | purchased her for a hunter and pp. field was trung widel
ing alone on this road—in daylight?" {larkness the night before. Present. ing replied. “I've turned him over Stood Salvage, sleek and shiny, with point-to-point racer. He took her pening him and. as he had : §
‘Got in from home leave early Y: Spent and winded, he came trot- to the stable sergeant to break to {WO newly healed scratches across back to England and schooled her of was A ry Bad suticipal
this morning and discovered my UP8 down this road, and Cowing draft. After he's hauled a G. S his rump. | OVEE he Jumpa. e pe
uadron had moved up here some- stepped out of his observation post wagon around a while with a six- Cowing saw at a glance that the She took tothem agreeably; inthe p.."con SOR ie
where during the night. Found this shouted, “Whoa! 'teen-hundred-pound Percheron to Stable sergeant had been babying the end, her co was. equal to & SIX- | wi not run in the mud. hat
BoTse Jt the wagon lines, so 1_sad- The horse stopped, then came to- teach him his place he'll simmer horse. Gilbert, one of the new subai- foot jump. She had an instinctive » bio, "ge a" Ue Mud Will runin
dled him. Looking for my troop, Ward Cowing as if, in the society of do terns, asked the major for him, but judgment of distance in the take-off = po s. mare, broad
y'know. ‘demons, he recoginzed a friend! Bradshaw was horrified “Oh, the latter refused and issued orders 2nd always took the hurdles erful nae, of hoof,
‘I think you'll find them in a long There was no mistaking him. He was come now, Cowing,” he protested. that Salvage should be broken to 3nd clean—a natural and beau pe op IS ga
wooded swale about a half mile the big liver-colored chestnut WMlie “I'll spare old Salvage this ignominy. draft immediately. | jumper. : can be, was
from here. Straight ahead to the Brandon had ridden that morning. Do give him to me, Cowing.’ ' He was—but he did not take kind- _ Beyond a formal call upon
crossroads, then take the left-hand So it was obvious Willie had got Cowing shrugged. “Help yourself,
road about a quarter of a mile, home with the cavalry charge! ‘youngster. Within a week you'll \
You'll bear a charmed life if you _Cowing, etaliiug te Hore knew resign, yourself to seeing Salvage in
“I heard we were in for some real The horse's saddle, rump
old-fashioned cavalry work
morning,” Trooper Brandon exulted.
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Lancers wouldn't be up front if!
there wasn’t work planned for them.
I think they're to Mon-
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softened it a bit. There won't be
enough of them left after they've
taken the village to make a
experiment worth while,
stay here with me, Willie, my boy,
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Miss a cavalry charge?” |
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“It's easy to see you're a
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alr | Sides, aman hates fo win from a coyant style Cowing saw beside the.
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n terest. e hadn't a troubled you particularly in the old
blemish on him, Even the old shell- days.” io y | horse ha yRoundered J; at that I
scratches on his rump had healed “And it will not trouble me this JUMP AL Ae Sarl Of the rhse, fale
and bucks and | and the hair had grown over again morning, Eve. I'm going to win| B, ano, M0 =} 8 hee » Bl 5
| pertectly. | this point-to-point as sure as death |°fteR happens in such cases, gallons
horses. Tell! “He's out of draft” the maior and taxes.” | oats Poured es e
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h wagon lines I'll take him again for my boy. This old crock of mine has (Continued on page 7, Col 1.)
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