144 MY horse; my love. 



Did 3-0U see any of the direct progeny of General 

 Grant's Arabs, Count? 



"Abdul Hamid II., a golden sorrel, and Abdul 

 Hamid III., a bay, are a son and grandson of 

 Leopard. Although Leopard and Linden are grays 

 strange to say, none of their progeny are gray. 

 Abdul Hamid III. was from an own sister to the 

 dam of his sire, Abdul Hamid II. Both these stal- 

 lions are much larger than their sire and grandsire, 

 Leopard. Their dams were Mary and Topsy Shep- 

 ard, by Jack Shepard, a son of Henry Clay, from a 

 granddaughter of imported Messenger. The heads 

 of this Leopard family are uniformly fine and clean, 

 with straight faces Their limbs show their good 

 blood, and their hocks are clean, as if chiselled 

 from marble. They show fine trotting action, all to 

 the credit of their sire, Leopard." 



Is Linden's produce there also? 



" Hegira, by Linden, was from a daughter of 

 Henry Clay. This horse stands fifteen and one-half 

 hands high barefoot, and is a rich, dapple coal-black. 

 Linden was purchased by Abdul Hamid II., Sultan 

 of Turkey, from an Egyptian merchant. It is said 

 that all of the Sultan's Arabs are either seized by his 

 tax-gatherers, or purchased by their agents. Hegira, 

 by Linden, represents entirely different blood, 

 from the get by Leopard. The head is shorter, 

 finer in the muzzle, deeper and broader between 

 jowls, dished in the face, with great breadth 

 between the eyes. The ears are shorter and finer, 

 the rump more sloping, showing all the characteris- 



