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and constitution that the days passed 

 and no rise in her temperature ensued. 

 When the day came for her foal to be 

 bom, she was lowered gently in the stall, 

 the little one came into the world all 

 right, she made good recovery, and since 

 that time has bred seven perfect foals. Now 

 in 1906, the broken-legged mare is nine- 

 teen years old, and she is due to foal this 

 spring. This authentic history of a mare 

 that is to be seen by any visitor to Crab- 

 bet Stud is a tale of endurance and sound- 

 ness that might lead us to give credence 

 even to the tradition associated with the 

 beginnings of life of the famous Keheilet 

 Ajuz. If there is a finer Arab stallion 

 in the world than Harb, the six year old 

 son of Bint Helwa and Mesaoud, the writer 

 would go a great distance to see him. 



Queen of Sheba is the name of a bay 

 mare foaled in 1875, which Lady Anne 

 Blunt saw and coveted at the time she 

 was with the Sebaa Bedouins in March, 

 1878. At that time the mare belonged 

 to Beteyen Ibn Mirshid, who had succeed- 



