no MY HORSE; MY LOVE 



and deliver him in safety to the person to whom he was 

 consigned. There was no time to demur, and a good round 

 sum in gold being counted out in payment of the horse's 

 passage, with some difficulty the young Arabian stallion 

 reached at last the deck of the schooner. 



' The Moor then confided to the captain these facts. A 

 very large sum of gold had been paid for the Arab, which 

 was of Abdallah breed, with directions that he should be 

 shipped to America. But the tribe of which he was the 

 pride, and from which he had been purchased, finding that 

 the owner resented their interference in his sale, appealed 

 to the Sultan. The Sultan at once forbade the departure 

 of the horse from the country, and the American consul's 

 authority was also called into requisition to prevent it. 

 While the dispute still raged, the wily Moor was flying 

 toward the coast under cover of the darkness with the 

 result described. The captain remembered well, being 

 greatly impressed by it, how the Moor, to prove his horse's 

 ancestry, had pointed out to him the marks branded with 

 a fine needle which were written on the inside of each 

 foreleg, thereby telling the story of his birth.' 



And was he the progenitor also of a race of fine horses ? 



'Unfortunately, no, for he lived but a short time after 

 reaching America.' 



Then this may have been the ' Abdallah ' which died on 

 Long Island many years ago from starvation ? 



' It is impossible to tell, for there is much mystery, and 

 many uncertain statements have been made about the 

 fisherman's Arab which was allowed to starve to death on 

 the Long Island coast. The old sea-captain believed it 

 to be the Abdallah Arab he had brought over, as no trace 

 of him could he find. The Abdallah had never been 



