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' trees of the garden ; coming when called, and 

 ' perching of their own accord on the children's 

 4 fingers, or on the heads of the young girls. The 

 ' horse I had bought of the Sheikh of Jerico, and 

 ' which I rode, knew me as his master in a few 

 1 days. He would no longer suffer another to 

 ' mount him, but would break through the whole 

 4 caravan to come at my call, though my voice and 

 4 language were foreign to him. Gentle and kind 

 4 to me, and soon accustomed to the attention of 

 4 my Arabs, he marched peacefully and quietly in 

 ' his place in the caravan, so long as he saw only 



* Turks, or Syrians or Arabs dressed like Turks ; 



* but when even a year after, he saw a Bedouin 



* mounted on a horse of the Desart, he became in 

 4 an instant another animal. His eyes flashed fire, 



* his neck grew inflated, his tail lashed like whips 

 4 upon his flanks, he reared on his hind legs, and 

 4 marched in this way for some minutes under the 

 4 weigfet of the saddle and his rider. He did not 

 4 neigh, but uttered a warlike cry like that of a 

 4 brazen trumpet, a cry that frightened all the other 

 4 horses, and caused them to arrest their steps, and 



* dress up their ears to listen to him." 



M. La Martine gives the following anecdote, as 

 a further proof of the intelligence and affection of 

 an Arabian horse. 



4 An Arab and his tribe had attacked in the 

 4 Desert the caravan from Damascus, with complete 



