CHAPTER XXXVII 



THE HOUSE 



< * T II T OULD you like to hear some eloquent words 



V V written about the horse several thousand 



years ago? I take them from the book of Job, the 



just man, whose admirable history is related in the 



Bible. 



"It was Job wasn't it," asked Jules, "who was 

 tried by the hand of God, lost his health, family, all 

 his goods, and was reduced to such misery that, lying 

 on a dung-hill, he scraped his boils and vermin with 

 a potsherd I His faith in God gave him back his 

 former prosperity." 



"Yes, my friend. The just man whose faith in 

 God even the direst misfortunes could not shake has 

 left us these beautiful words on the horse: 



" 'Hast Thou given the horse strength? hast Thou 

 clothed his neck with thunder? Canst Thou make 

 him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nos- 

 trils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and re- 

 joiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the 

 armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not af- 

 frighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. 

 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear 

 and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with 



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