40 MY horse; my love. 



kind, gentle, caressing, and obedient, he had never 

 known whip or spur, or even a harsh word, giving 

 always the best he knew." 



Does he still live? 



" He was alive when last I heard, having carried 

 the Empress of Austria during her journeyings 

 through Ireland. He is now forty years old, and 

 still in his prime, as the Arab horses are as long- 

 lived as a man. " 



Do they make good war-horses? 



" In battle, their extraordinary evolutions remind 

 one of the gyratory movements of the swallow when 

 it flies. They turn and wheel with such rapidity, 

 that it is almost impossible to get a shot at them, and 

 if they run, nothing can catch them, their wonderful 

 wisdom and cunning leading them and their riders 

 out of difficulties the most serious." 



Where are they found? 



"In Mecca, Medina, Palestine, and the Persian 

 Gulf are found the Nedj and Osman. They have 

 the Abdalla race in the Atlas Mountains, as well as 

 between Afghanistan and the Persian Mountains, 

 where live also the Dakir and Mohammed breeds. 

 These horses descend as heirlooms from father to 

 son, and no possession is so precious as these exqui- 

 site animals." 



They also can prove a long ancestry? 



" Their pedigree is carefully preserved with that 

 of the family's own, and their names descend as do 

 those of the generations of kings. Sometimes many 

 or all the members of a tribe will be each a part 

 sharer in a horse, and this horse is left by will to a 



