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Jan. 29, 1&30. 



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[VtmlimMuli/rfm fV S>3-] 

 CHAPTER II, 



THR DIFFERENT FOREIGN BRHKUS. 



! mid rejoin; the henrW of my rliililrcii.' As he 

 liroiiuiinciMl llic lust words, lie f\>ru\i^ \\\tu\i her 

 l)n(!l<, and wus out of »ij;lit in a inonicni." 



Tin; next nnccdote is srnrcidy less tuiicliiiig, and 

 not so well known. " lliraliini, a poor Imt worlliy 

 ' Aral), nnalde to pay a sum of money \virn-li he 

 TnE ARAUiAN. — Continued. lowed, was compelled to allow a mcrdiantof Roma 



When llic Arab Calls from his mare, and is to become partner with him in a vulnuble mare, 

 unable to rise, she will immediately stand still. When the time came, he could not redeem his 

 and iici;;li milil assistance arrives. Il'ho lie down pledge to this man, and the mare was sold. Her 

 to sleep, as fati;:nc sometimes compels him, in the pedij^rce could la; trared on the side; of sire and 

 midst of the desert, she stand.s watchful over him, J dam ("or full five Innxlred years. The price was 

 and neighs and rouses him if cither man or beast three hundred pounds; an enormous sum in that 

 approach. An old Aral) had a valuable mare, country. Ibrahim went fre<|Ucntly to Rama to 

 that bad carried him for fifteen years in many a inipiirc after the m.ire ; he would embrace her, — ' 

 bard fought li.-itile, and ninny a rapid weary march ; wipe her eyes with his handkerchief, — rub her 

 at len!^th,ei;;lity years ohl, and unable longer to with his shirt sleeves,— and give her a thousand' 

 ride her, he gave her, and a sciinetar that had been , hencdirtions during whole hoursthat he remained ; 

 bis father's I" his eldest son, and told him to talking to her. ' My eyes I ' would he say to her, | 

 appreciate their value, and never lie down to rest ^ ' my soul ! my heart ! must I be so unfortunate as [ 

 nnlll he had rubbed tliein both as bright as a to have thee sold to so many niasler.s, and not' 

 looking glas-:. In the fust skirmish in which the keep thee myself? lam ))oor, iny antelope I I; 

 young man was engaged he was killed, and the brought thee up in my dwelling as my child. I did 

 mare fell into tlio bands of the enemy. When I never heal nor chide thee ; I caressc<l thee in the 

 the news reached the old man, he exclaimed that proudest manner. God preserve thee, my beloved I 

 " life was no longer worth preserving, for he had i tlioii art beautiful, tliou art sweet, thou art lovely! 

 lost both his sou and his mare, and ho grieved for i God defenil thee from envious eyes ! ' " 

 one as much ts tlio other;" and iimne<liately Sir John Malcolm gives two anecdotes to the 

 sickened and died. same purpose, but o/ a more amusing nature. 



Man, however, is an inconsistent being. The " When tlic envoy, returning from his former 

 Arab who ibiis lives with, ami loves his horses, mission, was encamped near Ragdail, an Arab 

 regarding him as his most valuable treasure, roile a bright bay mare of extraordinary shape and i 



sometimes treats them with a cruelty scarcely to 

 be believed, and not at all to he justified. The 

 severest treatment wliieli the English race horse 

 endures is genlleiiess, compared with the trial of 

 the young Arabian. Probably the filly has never 

 before been mounted ; she is led owt ; her owner 

 springs on her back, and goarls her over the sand 

 and rocks of the ile.sert at- full speed for fifty or 

 sixty niih's without one moment's respite. She 

 is then forced, steaming and panting, into water 

 deep enough fi>r h-r to siviin. If, iminediaiely 

 after this, she will eat as if nothing bad occm-nul, 

 her character is estaldished, and she is acknow- 

 ledged to be a iienuiiie d(!srendaut of tlie /Toc/i/oai 

 breed. 'I'be Ariib is not conscious of the cruelty 

 which he thus inllicts. It is an invariable custiun, 

 and custom will induce us to inflict many a pang 

 on those whom, aftc-r all, we love. 



The following anecdote of the attachment of 

 an Arab to bis mare, has often been told, but it 

 conies home to the bnsmn of everyone possessed 

 of connnon feeling. "The vvhide stock ofan Arab 

 of the desert, consisted of a mare. The French 



beauty before his tent, until he attracted his 

 attention. On being asked if he would sell Iter ; 

 — ' What will you give me ? ' was the reply : ' That 

 depends upon her age ; I suppose she is past five ? ' 

 — ' Guess again,' said he. ' Four ? ' ' Look at her 

 mouth,' cald the Arab, with a smile. On exami- 

 nation she was found to be rising three. This, 

 from her size and syminetry, greatly enhanced her 

 valiK!. The envoy said, ' I will give you fifty 

 tomans.' (a coin nearly of the value of a pound 

 sterling.) ' A little more, if you jilease,' said the fel- 1 

 low,apparently entertained. ' Eighty. A hundred.' 

 lie shook his head and smiled. Vhe offer at last 

 came to two hundred tomans! ' ^Vell,' said the 

 Arab, 'you need not tempt mo further; — it is of 

 no use. — You are a rich elclice (nobleman.) You 

 have fine horses, camel.s, and inides, and, I am 

 told, you have loads of silver and gold. Now,' 

 added he, ' you want my mare, but you shall not 

 have lii'r for all you have got.'" 



" An Arab sheick or chief, who lived within 

 fifty miles of Bussorah, had a favorite breed of 

 horses. He lost one of his best inares, and could 



al.oi't which he was more solicitous than abi 

 his daughter." 



One of our own countrymen, the cnterpris 

 traveller. Major Denham, afibrds us a jileas 

 instance of the altacliment with which the «I<j< i 

 and sagacity of the horse may inspire the ow i 

 lie thus relates the death of his favorite Aralii 

 ill oiie of the most desert spots of Central .\tri "K 

 His fe< 'ings need no apology. We naturi 

 honor liic man in whom true sensibiliiy tk< 

 undaunted courage, exerted for useful purpof 1 

 were thus united. 



" There are a few situations in a man's life, 

 which losses of this nature arc felt mo-t keen 

 and this was one of them. It was not grief, 

 it w as something very nearly ajiproaching to 

 and though I felt ashamed of the degree 

 derangement I suffered from it, yet it was sevj 

 ilajs before I could get over the loss, he 

 however, he remembered, that the poor anii 

 had been my support and comfort, — nay, I n 

 i-ay, companion, through many a dreary day i 

 night ; — had endured both liungcr and thirst 

 my service ; and was so docile, that he wo 

 stand still fiir hours in the desert while I si 

 between his legs, his body affording me the o 

 shelter that could be obtained from the powe 

 influence of a noon day sun ; — he was yet 

 fleetest of the fleet, and ever foremost in 

 chase." 



Our horses would fare badly on the sea 

 nourishment afforded the Arabian. The m 

 usually has hut one or two meals in twentyf 

 hours. During the day she is tied to the dooi 

 the tent, ready for the Bedouin to spring, a 

 moment's warning, into the saddle ; orshe is tun 

 out before the tent ready saddled, the briille inei 

 taken off, and so trained that she gullo|>s 

 immediately at her master's call. At night, 

 receives a little water ; and with her sea 

 provender of five or six pounds of harlev or hot 

 and somelimes a little straw, she lies down c 

 t-int, in the midst of her master's family. She c 

 however, endure great fatigue ; she will tm 

 fifty miles without stopping ; she has been pnsl 

 on emergency, one hundrcd'nnd twenty miles,; 

 occasionally, neither she nor her rider has ta; 

 food for three whole days. 



To the Arabian, |>rincipally, England is indcb 

 fur her improved, and now unrivalled breed 

 horses for the turf, the field, and the road, a- 

 be shown when we treat of the English horse 

 [To be continued.] 



consul offered to piirehase her in ordiM' to send not for a long while discover whether she was 

 her to bis sovereign, I.ouis XIV. The Arab would sl(deii or had strayed. Some time after, a young 

 have rejecteil the proposal at once wi h indignalion man of a different tribe, who had long wished to 

 and scorn ; but be was miserably poor. He had miirry his daughter, but had always been rejected 

 no means of supplying his most urirent wants, or by the sheick, obtained the lady's consent and 

 proi'iiriiig the barest necessities of life. Slill li<t eloped with her. The sheick and his followers 

 licsilaleil ; — lie bad seari-ely a rag to cover him — , pursued, but the lover and his mistress, mounted 

 and his wife ami ebildren wen; starving. Tlieiin one horse, made a wonderful march, ami 

 BUni ottered WHS great, — it would proviile him and escaped. The old chief swore that the fi-llow 

 his fiimily wiili, food for life. At liuigtb, and ! was either mounted upon the devil, or the favorite 

 reluctantly, lor consenled. Me lironghl the mare I mare he had lost. .M^er his return, be found the 



to the dwidlint; of the ennsiil, —lie illsmounleil, — 

 he slooil leaning upon her ; - Ik; looked nriw at the 

 gold, and llieii at bin favorite; — he Highed — he 

 wept. ' To H liom is il,' siiiil he, ' I nm ;»oiiig to 

 yield thee up? To Ijiropeaiis, who will lie thee 

 close, — who willbe.it thee, - who will render thee 

 miserable. R-tiirii with me, my be.niiy, my jewel. 



latter was the case ; that the lover was the thief 

 of his iinrc as well as his daughter ; and that he 

 stole the one to carry ofl' the other. The idiief 

 was ipiiie gratified to think that he had not been 

 liealen by a male of another breed ;and was easily 

 ri'ioMiiled to the young man, in order that he 

 inighi lei liver the mare, wbieh appeared an object 



FOR THK HEW EHGLAHD rARMIII. 



iiortici;lture. 



Mb Kessenden— .\mongthc books rccrnlly im|>o 

 from France, for the I.ilirary of the MassarliUsolLs ll( 

 cultural Society, are four volumes of the " Annjic 

 Horticiillure ilc Paris." This work has justly tcqiiire 

 high rpptitaiion In Furopc, from the variety ami v.ilui 

 the scienlilic and prarlicil inrormatlon which it conn 

 on the most pleasinj; lininclics of rural cronoinv ; 

 believing that translations of many of the arlirli-s. nil 

 founil interesting ami instructive to the cullivmois of 

 roiiiitry, I shall occasionally ofTer such, as you niaj 

 di>po<cil to piihlisli in the New K.ngla.xd K.«rme( 



The llorlicullural Society of I'aiis tvas not insiiii. 

 until 1S26, hut so siircc^ful h^vo been iLs cllorl.s to i x 

 > spirit of enuilalion, ami encourage a lasto for Ihr n 

 refined of Iho Arts, that more than fiflrcn hundred ni< 

 hers are already borne upon its rolls, anil they arc r.-ipi, 



