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an elephant, and so gentle and docile, that he 

 eats bread out of my hand, and has almost as 

 much attachment and as many coaxing ways as 

 a dog. This seems the general character of the 

 Arabian horses, to judge from what I have seen 

 in this country. It is not the fiery dashing 

 animal I had supposed, but with more ration- 

 ality about him, and more apparent confidence 

 in his rider, than the majority of English 

 horses." 



Chillaby, the property of Mr, Jennings, of 

 Clay Hall, Essex, formed a singular exception 

 to the gentle and naturally tractable disposition 

 of the Arabian horse ; being so ferocious that he 

 was kept chained in his stall, like a wild beast. 

 He was, however, afterwards purchased and 

 tamed by Hughes, for the circus, at the 

 opening of that place of amusement in Lon- 

 don. 



In the belief that anv information, and even 

 anecdotes, relative to the Arabian parent stock 

 from which our celebrated racing breed derive 

 their origin, will not be out of place in a work 

 professing to record the most renowned per- 

 formances of the latter, we will proceed to give 

 a few of the most interesting and best authen- 

 ticated facts stated in the works treating on this 

 subject. 



