The 10th Huasars seem to have a good notion of
making them- selves comfortable. The officers of that regiment, being ordered to take part in the Hampshire campaign, have ordered a movable canteen, a carriage ten feet long and five feet wide, with a roof, and fitted up with three oak vats for beer, " a large supply of wines, spirits, and cooling drinks," baking apparatus, and places for storing 480 two-pound loaves of bread. The canteen will be drawn by two horses, will hold four men on the box and the can- teen-serjeant inside, and will be, we should imagine, about as heavy an impediment as a cavalry regiment could well lug about. We thought the arrangements were to approach as near as possi- ble to those of an actual campaign, but perhaps the Tenth con- sider they could carry their canteen with them even into battle. It would travel as easily as an artillery waggon, and would only need iron plating to be safe under fire. One wonders whether officers selected by competition instead of money will build car- riages to carry about oak vats full of beer and racks of bottles of lemonade.
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