How Some Arabs Have Been Obtained 57 



drew rein till we got to the foot of 

 the hill behind which the village stands. 

 For the first few miles my 

 mare behaved very well, going on at 

 her easy stride without unnecessary 

 hurry, and allowing Tamarisk to keep 

 more or less beside her; but after this, 

 although she was not in the least ex- 

 cited, she would not be kept at any 

 reasonable pace. She does not mind 

 uneven ground, full of Jerboa holes, 

 and went faster and faster, till soon 

 Tamarisk and Wilfrid were as much out 

 of the race as the soldiers were, and 

 yet she would not be steadied. It 

 was only when we came to the hills 

 and very broken stony ground, fully 

 twelve miles from where we started, that 

 I got a pull at her, and at last stopped 

 her. . . . We were just forty-five 

 minutes doing the twelve miles. . . . 

 The last two miles we travelled at a more 

 sober pace, and the sun appeared as 

 we rode in through the stone gateway 

 of Arak." 



No wonder she brought Hagar to Eng- 

 land as a brood mare! There she pro- 

 duced the following: 



