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ably installed in the stable ol the Quaker. With kind treat- 

 ment and plenty to eat the horse began to round out and 

 once more the graceful lines of symmetry were perceptible. 

 Time passed and the cast-off Arabian horse became the 

 most beautiful creature in that part of the city. 



The Quaker's daughter went from time to time to see 

 the horse and listen to the praises of the groom. Finally 

 she became so impressed with the animal that she used him 

 as her saddle horse. But all this time the spark of fire in 

 the blood of the horse was being slowly revived, for all the 

 cruel treatment he had received had not quite extinguished 

 it. One day he was feeling particularly frisky and he threw 

 his fair rider and badly injured her. This so enraged the 

 Quaker that he had the groom thrown into prison. 



The mother of Lord Godolphin, a celebrated English 

 noble, was visiting in Paris, and, being a very charitable 

 woman, she went with a number of other ladies to visit the 

 prison. There she saw the poor Arab and listened pityingly 

 to his story. Afterward she made an investigation and found 

 that he had told her the exact truth. She saw the man again 

 and he persuaded her to buy the horse from the Quaker. 

 Then she sent both the horse and the groom to her son in 

 England. 



The groom knew so much about horses that he was 

 placed in charge of the stables of his new master, and, while 

 acting in this capacity, occurred the incident that caused 

 his temporary downfall. On the stock farm was Roxanna, 

 by the Ball Galloway, a great mare of the day, and the lord 

 desired to breed her to Hobgoblin, a grand stallion he owned; 

 but the mare would have nothing to do with the English 

 stallion and seemed to care for no horse save the despised 

 blind Arab. The groom thought there was no horse like 

 the one from his own deserts and he permitted the mare to 

 go into the embrace of the Arabian. 



When Lord Godolphin learned of what had been done 

 he was so enraged that he banished both the horse and the 

 groom to a barren estate in Scotland. There the Arab built 

 a small stone hut to shelter himself and the horse. For two 

 years they lived there, and the Arab worked and procured 

 food for both of them. 



In course of time the mare delivered a foal. It was a 



