MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



ture that you were some member of the 

 Anezeh that had come to see me." 



''La" (no), "Mr. Davenport Said no see 

 Anezeh." 



"You are going back to the desert." 



"No go desert. All night Said no sleep — 

 sit down, no lay down. Go Wadduda stall, 

 pray ; come back, no answer — no sleep — pray, 

 no sleep." 



Turning, he pointed out into the pasture to 

 the little knoll, and said that there a few mo- 

 ments ago Allah had answered his prayer. 

 When he found where Mecca was, he had 

 prayed to Allah and Allah had told him 

 that he was not to go back to the desert; that 

 he had been given with Wadduda by Akmet 

 Haffez to me; and that he was going to stay 

 as long as Wadduda lived — would stay even 

 when she was gone, with her colt and her colt's 

 colt, and was never going back to the desert. 

 He has never been homesick since. 



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