Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-09

known to me- and which have never been able to dis
cover even to this day, sort Of fatality has always
tended my dealings in horsefesh had bought hired
and borrowed the very inestloong animals that coul
be found any where and failed to find out befor
long that they blind spawned oundered or trouble
with defect which invariably caused them to stumb
and throw me their heads. Not content with tn
entertaining spectacle thus afforded to public eyes, tn
very friends Of my heart turned against in the hou
Of misfortune, and said it oil my fault that an
body of sense could have foreseen the result
that the most honest in the world whose word wouit
pass in bank for any amount could not help lying wheI
it to horses that mans father not to bs
trusted in transaction Of this kind or even mans
mother without looking into the horses mouth and
examining his hoofs On this account / resolved
to study well the points of the animal that was to
me through Syria. 4at 2n saa ataii Csc pt
Yussf had already given me slight idea of the
kind of heyse was to have. II was animal of the
purest Arabian blood descended in direct line from the
famous seed Of the desert Ashrik its great granddam
was the beautiful Booboo-la for whose death the
nowned Arab chieftan Baala then boy, grieved
stantly until he eghtynne years of age, when
longer able to endure life under melancholy Attic
ton he got married to woman of bad temper, and
ormented to death in his hundred and twentieth year.
and the last words he uttered were, Doghra do9era
straight ahead! All Of Yusef Badass horses his own,
bought with his money, not brokendown hacks like
what other dragomans hired for their Howad though,
praised be Ala he Yuse above jealousy
There only horse in Syria that could at all
pare with this animal, and that his own; horse
that must be known in America for it had eaped
wall twenty feet hgh and trained to walk hundred
and fifty miles day, and kill the most desperate robbers
by catching them up his teeth and tossing them
his head had not heard of this horse, but thought it
best by slight nod to let Yusef suppose that his story
not altogether unfamiliar to Being determined
TO examine in detail all the points of the animal destined
for myself directed Yusef to bring them both up sad
died and bdled that might ride out and try their
respective qualities before starting journey. This
proposition seemed to confuse him little, but he bright
ened up in moment and went off, promising to have
them at the door in half an hour. isa fa
Two hours elapsed; during which time waited
with great mpatence the famous descendant of
the beautiful Boobooa. looked up towards the road,
and at length dust and then perfect rabble
of Arabs, and then Yusef mounted TALL slabsded,
crooked old horse and then-could it be ?yes IA iy
ing ANIMAL lean and hollow very DID, saddled with
ancient saddle, brdled with the of ancient
bride, and led by dozen ragged Arabs At distance
looked little like horse; when it closer it look
ed like the ghost of mule and then, closer STILL
like horse again.
'sTell me-" said the indignant blood mounting to my
cheeks, +" tell me, Yusef, is that horses" sa
horse n retorted he smiling, as took it, at the
tutored simplicity of American; horse, oh, Gene
raj it is nothing else but horse and such animal
too as I'll venture to say the richest pasha in Beirut
can't match this very moment
"Tahib! good !" said one of the Arabs, patting him
the neck and looking sideways at in confidential
way. s
"Tahib !" said another and "tahib another, and
tahiti" every Arab In the crowd if each of them
had ridden the horse five hundred miles, and knew all his
merits by personal experience.
That there points of kind about him not
be disputed His back must have been broken differ
ent periods of his fe in at least three places for there
three distinct pyramids it, like miniature pyra
mds of Gzeh just in front of the saddle. where his
shoulderblade up cone another just back of the
saddle; and the third kind of spur Of the range
his hips where there sudden breaking off from the
original line of the backbone and precipitous descent
to his tail The joints of his hips and the joints of his
legs also prominent especially those of his forelegs
which he seemed to be always trying to sraighten out
but could in consequence Of the sinews being
short by several inches His skin hung upon this remark
able piece of framework it had been purposely put
there to dry in the sum- to be ready for leather
any moment after the extinction of the vital functions
within. But to judge from the eye, (here only one
there seemed to be prospect of suspension of vitality
for it burned with great brlancy, showing that horse
like snged cat may be good deal better than he locks
"a great horse that" said Yusef patting him the
neck kindly mo humbug about him, General. Fifty
miles day he'll travel fast asleep. He's genuine
SYRIAN
"And do you tell me-" said l. +" that this is the great
grandson of the beautiful Booboo-la? That T. on Ame
rcan citizen representative in foreign parts Of the go-
rious City of Magnificent Distances am make public
exhibition of myself throughout Syria mounted upon that
miserable beast 2" ff
"Nay, for that" replied the fellow rather crest
fallen far be it from me- the athfuest of dragomans
to palm off bad horse Howadj Of rank. The very
best in Beirut at my command Only say the word,
and you shall have black white gray heavy or light
tall short but this much know, you'll not find such
an animal that any where in Syria. Ho, Saladin
(slapping him the neck) who's this, old boyf Yusef
eh? Ha, ha! see how he knows me Who killed the six
Bedouins sngle-handed, when we were out last, Ell,
saladins lila, ha you know it was Yusef you cunning
rascal only you don't like to tell remarkable ANIMAL
you perceive but said before perhaps you'd better
try another" tt,.te
No." said l. emo, Yusef; this horse will do very
well He's little ugly, to be little broken-backed,
and perhaps little blind lame, and spawned but he has
some extraordinary points Of character At all events it
will do no harm to try him Come, away we go" Say
ing which undertook to vault into the saddle but the
grth being loose it turned and let down the
other side. This little mishap remedied, and
we went off in smart walk up the lane leading from
Demetres towards the sand-hils. In short time we
were we'll ont Of the labvrnth Of hedges formed by the