ARABIAN HORSES IN ENGLAND. 



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"The simple reason of it was the susceptibility 

 of the Sultan to female beauty. He was so captivated 

 by the Princess of Wales, when in England, that 

 on hearing of her great passion for horses, and her 

 great ambition to possess a beautiful Arab, that he de- 

 termined, on his return to Turkey, to send her the 

 choicest animal in his stable. Of course you must 

 understand that the Sultan had no opportunity at 





THE ARABIAN MARE, NAOMI. 



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home, of conversing with any other women than 

 those of his own harem. And so it was that Kouch, 

 the most beautiful horse ever seen in England, the 

 only pure 'air-drinker' in the Sultan's stables, for 

 which he paid ten thousand guineas, entered 

 England. " 



Is he still living? 



"Alas, no; and the only pure-bred son he had, 

 Gomussa — whose dam was Naomi, the only Arabian 



