BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HORSE. 



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Baith among the trumpets, Ha ! lia ! and he smelleth the bat- 

 tle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." 



The exultant song of Miriam, after the passage of the 

 children of Israel through the Red Sea, is the second place 

 in the Bible where reference is made to the horse. In her 

 impassioned recital of the glorious triumphs whereby the 

 Lord had wrought such deliverance for his people, not the 

 least was that " the horse and his rider hath He thrown into 

 the sea." 



DAELEY ARABIAN. 



The horse is nearly always associated in Holy Writ wita 

 man, as possessed with the spirit of war, and of great fond- 

 ness for its conflict and carnage. He, like man, requires, and 

 is capable of, great cultivation and discipline for the murder- 

 ous and guilty pursuit. Associated with man in his sins, he 

 has been cursed, like him, with his diseases — the sure and 

 certain consequences of sin. It may be said of both his phys- 



