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Show few years ago, the Japanese erected a monument tto the memory of the horses killed in battle. The duke of Wellington built one at Strathfields-aye, Strathfields-aye, where the famous charger Copenhagen Copen-hagen died. The height of Farley Mount, not far from Winchester, is crowned with an obelisk erected to a horse Buriea "there.-The-sarae-of--tbe animal was Beware Chalk Pit, this cognomen having been bestowed on account of the fact that the horse during dur-ing a hunt jumped into a chalk pit twenty feet deep, with its master on its back. The obelisk is a landmark for many miles around. The mention of this horse as a hunter recalls the fact that at Sandiway, in Cheshire, there is a monument to another animal ani-mal of the chase a foxhound. Blue-cap Blue-cap was its name, and its exploits were the theme of songs which are not yet forgotten, though 120 years have passed since the hound died. The obelisk was erected by the late A. H. Smith-Barry. IHemorials for Horses. After their conflict with China a |