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the same amount of energy I possessed 

 formerly. I felt as if I had got some 

 twenty years older in the last month or 

 two, and at times could not imagine I was 

 the same fellow with the same tastes I had 

 only so lately. A few months since, if I 

 had bought a new horse or pony, I should 

 have been on his back almost day and 

 night; now I had two, and I seldom 

 looked at them. This train of thought 

 roused me to take a look how the grey 

 Arab horse was getting on, so on my way 

 to my tent, I told the sals to take off his 

 kaprd, and, on this being done, I observed 

 a very great change for the better. He 

 was filling out fast, and his back was no 

 longer disgusting to look at; the sores 

 appeared to be drying up under the judi- 

 cious treatment of the attentive horse- 

 keeper ; his ewe neck and ungainly head 



