NAPOLEON'S HORSES 201 



Piers Gaveston owned a grey, or that Blucher 

 remarked upon some uninteresting occasion that 

 he had a horse that used to jib ? 



Yet trivial points of this sort are to be found 

 mentioned in plenty of the so-called popular bio- 

 graphies of our great men. 



Of more interest it would have been had the 

 biographers succeeded in discovering, and then 

 told us, what sort of bits Napoleon liked to 

 ride his chargers in, and his reason or reasons 

 for preferring them, or whether Blucher ever 

 tried his grey in blinkers. Then the horses 

 described at such weary length might possibly 

 have taught us a lesson or two worth learning. 



