The weather on which was the third day in camp was gloriously fine without being uncomfortably hot, a brilliant sur shining all day long.
Tt was a grant day for the gun-"ners, who put in an hour's tent pegging, jumping and other exercises in horsemanship shortly after reveille, Reveille was by some mischance a quarter of an hour sooner than on working days, instead of there being the usual half hour's grace often allowed to troops on Sundays. At the pre-pesterously early hour of 5 a.m. the horse lines were a scene of orderly chacs, thronged with happy volunteers and all the paraphernalia of an. artillery encampment. Breakfast was followed by a day's field operations. At 9 a.m. the fall in was sounded, the unit moving off half an hour later in the direction of Kiangwan. Two different battery positions were taken up in the course of the day and the guns
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