CHAPTER XVI 



WHAT ONE MAY OVERLOOK IN THE SHIPMENT 

 OF HORSES — WE LEAVE THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 

 AND ENTER ESSENTIAL PART OF IT AT LEAST, 

 ALTHOUGH SURROUNDED BY SPIES. 



How that pinochle game came out I do not 

 remember. Maybe I won, but whether I did 

 or not, my mind was more set on evincing the 

 game of horse— that is of getting my purchases 

 safely out of the country. 



When you're at home sitting on the shady 

 side of your porch and planning the exporta- 

 tion of Arab horses, there are some details 

 which you overlook while seated in a comfort- 

 able rocking chair. Generally, when you are 

 reading of the exportations which have been 

 made into England, you read something like 



this : 



"We brought from Damascus, or Aleppo, a 

 bay mare." Then follows a description of how 

 this particular mare enjoyed the grass in the 



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