After inspection parade
at nine a.m. gun drill and marching drill for the gunners while the
horses are out on exercise. During this parade I go to brigade and
see Todd about some men we believe to be swinging the lead. Mills
comes over to look at our guns, four of which are very bad, the
carriages being in a shocking state. During the morning we evacuate
four horses, one being my poor old Ginger. They had all four gone
blind from this opthalmia disease. We draw two in the afternoon. They
had just arrived from Calais and we drew out of a hat for them and
were lucky in getting to the best – a black and a bay. The horses
were supposed to be allotted by Colonel Beach at the fifteenth
battery lines but really Thorburn ran the show, managing to put in
plenty of dirty work, he and Armytage being a regular pair of
spealers[?]. The horses were very late in arriving. Cruickshank and I
waited three hours for them
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