The Horse. 11 



wildest tribes of men he has always been the 

 object of peculiar regard and love. Among the 

 wild Tartars and the inhabitants of the deserts 

 of Arabia he may be truly said to form part of 

 the family circle, and is treated with as much 

 solicitude and kindness as the people of the 

 desert bestow upon their own kindred. Little 

 children lie down in safety side by side with 

 him, and from their hands he will receive his 

 food as gently as a lamb. Rarely or never is 

 he known to abuse the kindness he receives; but, 

 with an instinct finer and truer in some respects 

 than human reason, he invariably returns with 

 interest the love and consideration he receives. 



He is at all times ready to answer to his 

 master's call, and knows the voice of every member 

 of the family as well as they know one another's. 



