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render tliee miserable ! Return with me, my beauty ! 

 my jewel ! and rejoice the hearts of my children !' As 

 he pronounced the last words, he sprung upon her 

 back and was out of sight in a moment." 



The other is detailed by Major Denham,the celebrated 

 traveller into the interior of Africa, and is not so uni- 

 versally diffused as the former, but gives us a pleasing 

 example, in which not only the wild, untutored Arab, 

 but also the more enlightened European, has acknow- 

 ledged the attachment these horses inspire from their 

 utility, mildness, and sagacity. This horse died in the 

 desert. 



'•' There are few situations in a man's life," says 

 this author, " in which losses of this nature are felt 

 most keenly, and this is one of them. It was not 

 grief, but it was something very nearly approaching to 

 it ; and though I felt ashamed of the degree of derange- 

 ment I suffered from it, yet it was several days before 

 I could get over the loss. Let it, however, be re- 

 membered that the poor animal had been my support 

 and comfort ; nay, I may say companion, through 

 many a dreary day and night ; had endured both 

 hunger and thirst in my service, and was so docile, 

 that he would stand still for hours in the desert while 

 I slept between his legs, his body affording me the 

 only shelter that could be obtained from the powerful 

 influence of a noon-day sun ; he was yet the fleetest 

 of the fleet, and ever foremost in the chase." 



Such, then, is the Arab horse, which for every quality 

 estimable in that animal, surpasses all that are found in 

 every other portion of the globe. When young, they 

 are trained in the tents of their masters, and are found 

 lying down to rest, and feeding in the same habitation, 

 with the rest of his family, and oftentimes serving the 

 purpose of a pillow, on wliicli they rest their heads ; 



