MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



tion and health. The next day storms swept 

 the ocean, and steamers due the following day 

 were three days late. 



Many of the horses had stood on their feet 

 from the 28th day of August until the 8th day 

 of October, yet when they were led off the 

 boat onto the docks, they played and pranced, 

 with legs free from any swelling whatever. 

 On reaching the farm, one stallion stood up in 

 his box for another twenty-four hours before 

 he lay down. 



I had had many visions while seeing these 

 horses eat the poor chaff and barley of the des- 

 ert, of what a pleasure it would be to see them 

 eating timothy hay and oats. So I suffered 

 a severe disappointment to observe that none 

 of the horses would touch these things, but at( 

 their bedding instead. This went on for sev- 

 eral days until we grew alarmed. Many of 

 the mares became gaunt for want of nourish- 

 ing food. They would root in their bedding 

 to hunt for food like that to which they had 

 been accustomed. So we fooled them in this 

 way: we sprinkled the bottom of their box 

 stalls with cut-up hay dampened, with oats and 

 middlings and then bedded over it. When 

 they rooted in the bedding they found this 



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