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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



vehicle for all these substances. Experience 

 will quickly show the proper quantities for 

 producing bread of a good consistence. 



AFFECTION OF THE ARAB FOR HIS HORSE, ETC. 



An Arab and his tribe had attacked in tlie 

 Desert the caravan from Damascus with com- 

 plete success, and the Arabs were occupied in 

 packing their booty, when the horsemen of the 

 Pacha of Acre, who had come to meet the 

 caravan, rushed suddenly on the victorious 

 Arabs, of whom they killed a considerable 

 number, and made tlie others prisoners ; and 

 having tied them with cords, took tiiem to 

 Acre, as presents to the Pacha. 



Abon el Masseh, the hero of this story, had 

 received a ball in his arm during the engage- 

 ment, but as his wound was not mortal, the 

 Turks had tied him upon a camel, taking !its 

 horse also with him. 



The evening of the day of their approach to 

 Acre, the party encamped with their prisoners 

 upon the Mountain of Saf hadt. The legs of 

 the woimded Arab were tied together by a 

 leathern belt, and '^he was laid near the spot 

 where the Turks slept. Kept awake during 

 the night by the pain of his wound, he heard 

 Ills horse neigh among others picketed round 

 the tents, according to the Eastern custom. 

 Recognizing its voice, he could not resist the 

 desire to go once more to the former companion 

 of his life. He crawled with great difficulty, 

 with the help of his hands and knees, and 

 reached his steed. " My poor friend (address- 

 ing him), what canst thou do among these 

 Turks ? thou wilt be imprisoned under the 

 roof of a kan, with the Horses of an Aga or 

 Pacha. The women and children will no 

 longer bring thee the camel's milk, or barley, 

 or doura in ther palms. Thou wilt no more 



course the desert like the wind from Egypi. 

 No more wilt thou divide with thy chest the 

 refreshing waves of Jordan. O that if 1 re- 

 main a slave, I could render thee at least free ! 

 Let me try ! There, go ! return to our tents, 

 tell my wife that Abon el Masseh returns to 

 it no more, and lick the hands of my four 

 children." 



Thus speaking, Abon had gnawed with his 

 teeth the goat's hair which had berved to 

 fasten the Arab Horses, and the animal became 

 free ; but seeing his master manacled and 

 bound at his feet, the faithful and intelligent 

 creature was taught by instinct what no lan- 

 guage could have told it. He bent his head, 

 seized his master, and taking him up by his 

 teeth by the leathern girdle round his body, set 

 off in a gallop, and carried him to his tent. 

 Arriving there, and throwing his master on the 

 sand, at the feet of his wife and children, the 

 horse expired from fatigue. 



The whole tribe wept his loss — poets sang 

 his merits, and his name is constantly in the 

 mouths of the Arabs who inhabit the country 

 about Jericho. 



We have ourselves no idea of the degree of 

 attachment and intelligence, which the habit 

 of living with the family, of being caressed by 

 the children, fed by the women, and en- 

 couraged or chided by the voice of the 

 master, adds to tlie natuial instinct of the 

 Arabian Horse. 



By his breed the animal is more intelligent 

 and tame than those of our climates. It is the 

 case with all the animals in Arabia. The 

 climate or nature has given them more instinct 

 and companionship with man than in Europe. 



SYMMETRY. 



The French veterinarians have taken great 



