House and Garden 
ARAH MARK “ WADDUDA ” AND STALLION “ MASOON ” 
Owned hy Homer Davcniioit, l'.s(|. 
I lamhletonian heresy was an uneducated Irish 
peasant who never gave a thought to horses till 
he was in middle hie. Then he used them to 
advertise a vulgar weekly paper, a combination 
of the holier-than-thou type, and the blood and 
thunder hair-raiser. 
But neither ignorance nor vituperation can affect 
established facts. I'he Arab is the oldest purely 
bred type and has been the most usetul; he is just 
as useful to-day as m the days of Solomon or Ma¬ 
homet. 1 hat our famous Vermont Morgans are 
descended from him was proved last summer when 
Mr. Homer Davenport exhibited his Arab stallion 
“Haleb” at the Rutland Horse Show in the class for 
the best horse of the Morgan type and carried cff 
ARAL STALT.ION “ HAI.EB ” 
Owned by Homer Uavenport, Es<]. 
the blue ribbon. 1 have never had any doubt that 
“Itistin Morgan,” the founder, was of Arab blood. 
He was not cjuite so large as “Haleb” nor probably 
so highly finished. “Haleb” is fourteen hands two 
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inches in height and weighs 950 pounds. Contrast 
him with ]\lr. Roosevelt Schuyler’s “ Rob Roy” 
whose portrait was in a recent number of House and 
Garden and with Mr. Crane’s “Meteor Morgan” 
and “Roy Morgan” here reproduced and it will he 
seen that the type is the same. 
I'he two other Arabs pictured here are also the 
property of Mr. Homer Davenport. The one ridden 
hy Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill) is the gray stallion 
“Masoon” and the other the chestnut war mare 
“Waddtida” ridden hy a Bedouin groom, Said Ah- 
dalla. This mare and the groom also were given to 
Mr. Davenport by the sheik Akmut Haffez. The 
horse is a Kehilan and the mare is of the Seglawieh 
A 1 Abed breed. 
THE OLD ENGLISH SHEEP DOG 
Ify H. \V. Berryman 
Secretary of tlie Old English Sheep Dog Club 
TN a rather pretentious book on dogs, Mr. James 
Watson attempts to check the growing popu¬ 
larity of the Old English sheep dog hy casting impu¬ 
tations on the purity of the type and laying particular 
stress upon a denial of the antiquity of the breed. 
It is likely that Mr. Watson knows much more 
about kennel management than about dog history 
and literature. Stonehenge recognizes the type (and 
Stonehenge is surely as good an authority as Watson); 
he says in “Dogs of the British Islands:” 
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