III. THE DABCHICKS. I85 



the Caffre war to its last successes, of blowing 

 women ^nd children to death with dynamite, 

 -and harrying the lands of entirely innocent 

 peasantry, because they would not betray 

 their defeated king. 



138. Of the due and noble relations be- 

 tween man and his companion creatures, the 

 horse, dog, and falcon, enough has been said 

 in -my former writings — unintelligible enough 

 to a chivalry which passes six months of 

 its annual life in Rotten Row, and spends 

 the rents of its Cumberland Hills in building 

 furnaces round Furness Abbey; but which 

 careful students either of past knighthood, or 

 of future Christianity, will find securely and 

 always true. For the relations between man 

 and his beast of burden, whether the burden 

 be himself or his goods, become beautiful 

 and honourable, just in the degree that both 

 creatures are useful to the rest of mankind, 

 whether in war or peace. The Greeks gave 

 the highest symbol of them in the bridling 

 of Pegasus for Bellerophon by Athena; and 

 from that myth you may go down to modern 

 times — understanding, according to your own 

 sense and dignity, what all prophecy, poetry, 



