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was offered onco for Monarch, and is now asked for Lecompte ! 

 $15,000, it is stated, has been readily obtained, of late, for Lexington ! 

 Priam cost over $25,000, landed in America. Bertrand would have 

 brought, at one time, $35,000, if his owner would have parted with 

 him. 



And is tliere no importance to be attached to the having the means 

 within our reach, in case of war, of forming serviceable bodies of cav- 

 alry, at the shortest possible notice, to defend our now annually more 

 and more extending limits ? 



Who can put his eyes upon one of our noble coursers, when, like 

 Diomed, as old Homer said — 



" He rises on the toe ; — that spirit of his 

 In aspiration lifts him from the earth" — 



with head erect, arched neck, and eyes flashing light and intelligence, 

 and not at once think what a glorious charger such a horse would 

 make, or would have made, in the proudest days of ancient chivalry ! 

 Who but at once imagines, that " though the quiver rattled against 

 him, the glittering spur and the shield, he would not turn his back 

 from the sword ; he would smell the battle afar off, the thunder of the 

 captains, and the shouting." 



How well does the sight of a fine thorough-bred enable us at once to 

 recognize the grandeur of Job's magiiificent description of a war-horse! 

 When we look at liis loin, do we not immediately see the force of 

 Job's words : " He has given the horse strength ; he paweth in the 

 valley, and rejoiceth in his strength !" When we look at liis neck, do 

 we not see, as Job says, that " He has clothed his neck with thunder !" 

 When we look at the fire in his eye, do we not remember this express- 

 ive language : " He cannot be made afi-aid as a grasshopper ; he mock- 

 eth at fear, and is not atfrighted.'' When Ave see his dilated nostrils, 

 still further are we impressed with the tmth and power of the sacred 

 description : "The glory ot his nostrils is terrible !" 



And are there not some admirable lessons to be learned from the 

 life and the character of the horse ? What a homily does his obedience 

 furnish ? He is all fire, but he gives not way to the impetuosity of his 

 nature — a bridle is upon ?iis passions — lie feels it his duty to obey, 

 therefore checks his inclinations, whenever they would dispose him to 

 run riot, submitting with patience to the hand that guides him. He is 

 content to lose his own identity, " to live, and move, and liave his 

 being," as it were, by the tuill of another — he receives the chastisements 

 of his master, and immediately amends his ways. In a word, how truly 



