148 MV iiorsk; mv love. 



What get has Naomi here? 



" Since coming- to this country she has produced the 

 beautiful colt, Anazeh — now two years old — by Gen- 

 eral Grant's Leopard. This gives Anazeh the distinc- 

 tion of being the first pure-bred Arabian horse born 

 in the United States, both sire and dam being im- 

 ported as the true 'air-drinkers of the desert.' In 

 1890 the dainty filly, Ruth Clay, was born, whose 

 sire is Jack Shepard. Ruth Clay roams with her 

 mother, Naomi, without bridle or halter, as tame as 

 any dog, about the unfenced grounds surrounding her 

 master's house. They both expect caresses and 

 come for them with a little air of curiosity toward ? 

 stranger, that partakes not in the least of feai 

 Naomi has all the dignity of aristocratic birth ana 

 associations, walking up to you as sedately as you 

 please, to have her pretty face stroked. When a 

 lump of sugar is not in evidence, Ruth pokes her 

 dainty muzzle about her mistress' skirts to find her 

 pocket, and the sugar dropped within it. She is 

 playful, alert, coquettish, and full of mischievous 

 pranks, and like her dam, bids f^ir to remind one of 

 the quotation, 'In her, strength and beauty have 

 come together,' and all the pride of all her race, in 

 herself reflected lives." 



