^56 MODERN FAimiEll. 



it has been remarked, that horses used in hearses 

 often shake their plumes with a superciHous air. 

 On account of the strength, valour, and utility of 

 this anim.al, he was formerly an object of adoration, 

 having been worshipped by ancient kings. 



The true bred blood liorse has performed a va- 

 riety of feats which no other class of his species can 

 equal. The English racer, as before observed, is 

 derived from Arabian progenitors. The following 

 warranty of the pedigree of a horse, brought from 

 Egypt by colonel Ainsley, is curious, and shews the 

 scrupulosity and precaution of the Arabian breeders. 



* In the name of God the merciful and compas- 

 sionate, and of Seed Mahommed, agent of the high 

 God, and of the companions of Mahommed and of 

 Jerusalem. Praised be the Lord, the omnipotent 

 Creator. This is a high bred horse, and its colt's 

 tooth is here in a bag, hung about his neck, with 

 his pedigree, and of undoubted authority, such as 

 no infidel can refuse to believe. He is the son of 

 >Jiabbamy, out of the dam Lahahdahah, and equal 

 in power to his sire, of the tribe of Zazalahah ; he is 

 finely moulded, and made for running like an os- 

 trich, and great in his stroke and his cover. In the 

 honours of relationship, he reckons Zalicah, sire of 

 Mahat, sire of Kellac, and the unique Alket, sire of 

 Manasseh, sire of Alsheh, father of the race down to 

 the famous horse, the sire of Lahalala. And to 

 him be ever abundance of green meat and corn, and 

 water of life, as a reward from the tribe of Zazaha- 

 iah, for the fire of his cover ; and may a thousand 

 branches shade his carcase from the hysena of the 

 tomb, and the howling wolf of the desert ; and let 

 the tribe of Zazahalah present him with a festival 

 within an enclosure of walls ; and let thousands as- 

 semble at the rising of the sun, in troops ha;Stily, 

 where the tribe holds up under a canopy of celestial 

 signs, within the walls, the saddle with the name 

 and family of the possessor. Then let them strike 



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