MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



and the water is a strong alkali lime mixture, 

 which is, possibly, accountable for the great 

 bone of the Arab horse, so finely exhibited in 

 the skeleton of the great "Marengo," Napo- 

 leon's war horse captured on the battlefields at 

 Waterloo. They are never taken in under 

 shelter from the sun, neither are they protect- 



Showing the solid steel shoe with small hole in center. 



ed from the storms of winter other than by a 

 flannel blanket. The Bedouins ride them at 

 two years old, and sometimes take them into 

 war at three. They are shod by the so-called 

 blacksmiths of the desert, who, in reality, are 

 criminals, and ought to be shot. The frog of 



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