10 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



stalked about adorned with the most valuable trappings 

 and pearls the Eoman empire could supply. 



In statuary, ancient as well as modern, the horse lives 

 with his rider. 



On the frieze of the Temple of Minerva, in the 

 Acropolis of Athens, at Nineveh, and numerous other 

 localities, are to be seen sculptured or painted, more or 

 less beautifully, ancient figures of men on horseback. 



In all the great cities of Europe the horse and his rider, 

 or rather the rider and his horse, are ornaments deemed 

 worthy to occupy conspicuous positions in the most 

 important thoroughfares. Accordingly in London, within 

 a few hundred yards of each other, are to be seen eques- 

 trian statues of Kings Charles L, William III., George 

 III., and George IY. 



Mounted on one charger, the Duke of Wellington in 

 his cocked hat and feathers, military cloak, sword, pistols 

 and spurs, in all weathers, rides triumphantly on the 

 summit of an arch at the western end of London, while, 

 at the same moment, in pantaloons and shoes, without 

 hat, stirrups, or spurs, mounted on another charger, he 

 appears, as a sentinel, in front of the Bank of England, 

 the commercial heart of the empire. 



Among the great potentates of the earth, the coin 

 that is most currently used, in proffers to each other of 

 amity and friendship, is a horse. And accordingly, the 



