MEETING WITH HASHEM BEY 



on horseback in the heat of war. He raised 

 the back of my hand to his forehead, and we 

 parted. He gave the Maneghi a good-bye. 

 Sheikh AH, of the Abu Gomuese, walked by 

 my horse, holding hands for a few yards, to 

 assure me that they had all enjoyed the visit, 

 and we were oif . 



'Haleb's" head. 



At Chicago in 1893, the World's Fair Arab 

 horses were unable to stand up in their Bedouin 

 shoes on the slick polished dirt, and the Arabs, 

 shortly after their arrival, changed to the 

 American horseshoe. I saw the small horse, 

 the subject of the following letter, have 

 both his forward tendons practically cut off by 

 overreaching. Notwithstanding that, about 



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