HORSE, 
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in vain attempted to outrun him, the poor and 
jaded animal, finding all its efforts to escape hope- 
less, hides its head wherever it can, and tamely 
suffers itself to be taken. The Arabian will some- 
times mount his horse without either bridle or sad- 
dle ; and such is the animal’s compliance to the 
rider’s will, that the mere motion of a switch is suf- 
ficient to direct him in his course. Mr. Pennant, 
in his British Zoology, has given a proof of the esti- 
mation in which this creature is held, in the la- 
mentation of an Arab who was obliged through po- 
verty to part with his mare; andM. Saint Pierre, ir> 
his Studies of Nature, has given the following in- 
stance of the very great attachment which the Ara- 
bians have for their horses : 
“ The whole stock of a poor Arabian of the de- 
sert consisted of a beautiful mare ; this the French 
consul at Said offered to purchase, with an intention 
to send her to Louis the Fourteenths The Arab, 
pressed by want, hesitated a long time, but at 
length consented, on condition of receiving a very 
considerable sum of money which he named. The 
consul wrote to France for permission to close the 
bargain, and having obtained it, sent the informa- 
tion immediately to the Arab. The man, so poor 
as to possess only a miserable rag, a covering for his 
body, arrived with his magnificent courser : he dis- 
mounted, and looking first at the gold, and then 
steadfastly at his mare, heaved a sigh. ‘ And to 
whom is it,’ he exclaimed, £ that I am going to yield 
thee up ? To Europeans ! who will tie thee close, 
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