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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



time he succeeded in picking up the coin as 

 he flashed past. 



Aeronauts have been known to ascend the 

 skies mounted on a Pegasus, which stood on a 

 plank suspended by ropes from a balloon ; and 

 riders have succeeded in training horses to 

 gallop not forward but backward. The horse 

 rises by jumps, and the moment the fore legs 



in eleven hours, without stopping for food 

 or drink. As she entered the city the brave 

 beast fell dead, — less fortunate than the more 

 justly famous Roland, who brought the good 

 news from Ghent to Aix. 



The use of horses in harness was far from 

 being as general in former times as it is 

 now ; in fact, it was much despised in the 



Tni': CiCLETSRATED Tkainicr M. Oscar Carre 



touch the ground he lifts the hind legs and flings 

 them backward to the ground behind him. 



A very famous English horse, Black Bess, a 

 Thoroughbred mare with much Arabian blood 

 in her veins, saved her no less famous, or rather 

 infamous, master, Dick Turpin, the highway- 

 man. When pursued by relays of archers, 

 determined to capture at last so elusive a 

 criminal, the mare carried him over rough 

 roads and turnpike gates from London to 

 York, a distance of one hundretl and five miles. 



brilliant days of equestrian chivalry. \Mien 

 the upper classes began to use carriages and 

 their passion for equitation lessened, the French 

 and German kings and princes endeavored to 

 check the innovation. Up to that time the use 

 of a carriage had always been regarded as an 

 effeminacy unworthy of a ca\'alier ; but now, 

 by degrees, people began to find the new mode 

 of locomotion more comfortable, and the cava- 

 liers themselves began to take their ease in 

 vehicles. In consequence of this, Duke Julius 



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