10 The Art of Biding. 



kings and warriors. Every great conqueror has 

 had his favourite horse, whose name is as well 

 preserved in history as that of his master — from 

 Alexander and Hannibal down to Napoleon and 

 Wellington. Alexander and Bucephalus, Wel- 

 lington and Copenhagen, are inseparable, and the 

 mention of either conqueror calls up, by, as it 

 were, a natural sequence, the name of his horse. 

 The incident serves to mark not only the value 

 of the horse to man, but also the peculiar and 

 high place he holds in man's love and regard. 



This recognition of the high place the horse 

 holds in the animal world has not been confined 

 to those civilized countries where, from their 

 superior culture, we should naturally expect a 

 due appreciation of so valuable and gifted an 

 animal, but among the most barbarous and the 



