CHAPTER II

A LONG HALT 24

Refits--Remounts--Regimental Pets--Civilian Hospitality and Soldiers' Homes--Soldiers' Christian Association Work-- Rudyard Kipling's Mistake--All Fools' Day--Eastertide in Bloemfontein--The Epidemic and the Hospitals--All hands and houses to the rescue--A sad sample of Enteric--Church of England Chaplains at work.