head-rope-eating

Updated: June 21, 2025

The horses have got a head-rope-eating epidemic, and seemed to be loose all night. August 12. Sunday. Reveillé at six. Harnessed up, and waited for orders to entrain for Pretoria. The 38th Battery have gone already, and the Wilts Yeomanry. A draft of twenty new men from England came in by train. They looked strangely pale and clean and tidy beside our patched and soiled and sunburnt selves.

Erskine Childers - In the Ranks of the C.I.V.