The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-05-28


green, their horses are sleek aud beauti-
ful in appearance. AT other times
they eat the withored herbage from the
parched soil, and are lean and unsightly.
They a.e never heltered from the sun
or the keen winds of winter the saddle
is rarely taken from their backs, they
are never curried, and the stranger of
ten marvcls that an animal, fit scarcely
to be seen, should be valued above any
price But thus treated and reduced,
gentle as lamb, and needing only
halter to guide her, when the Arab mare
hears the war cry of the tribe, and sees
her riders spear, her eyes glitter with
excitement her blood-red nostrils dilate,
her neck is created, her tail and mano
spread freely to the wind. The awaken"
ing of her energy is like tha. Of bird
of the chase.
The Shammar Bedouins give their
horses, particularly when young, large
quantities of camels milk. Dates are
mixed with their food ty some tribes,a
raw flesh is said sometimes to DO given
them. The Shammar and Anoyza shoe
with thin plates of iron having hole in
the centre shaped and rudely nailed to
the foot.Thc usual gaits are quick,easy
walk averaging sometimes four or ivo
miles an hour, and half running can
ter The Bcdouin rarely puts his marc
to speed, unless pursuing or pursued,
Layard says-Passing with his company
over an undulating country, he pitched
his tent on rising ground beyond a
stream. Beneath him was the golden
Towering pain, covered with the moving
objects Of an Arab encampmcnt. Tho
mares, camcls and sheep came to the
stream for water, and during tho whole
day there was an endless string of ami
mails, passing to and fro. lie watched
them from his tent. AS each mare or
horse stopped to drink OF the troubled
stream, Suttum, Lis Sheikh companion,
named its owner and its breed, and de-
scribcd its exploits. Tho mares wers
generally followed by two or three colts,
which arc suffered even in their third
year to run loose after their dams, and
gambol unrostrained over the plain.
He describes elsewhere single horse,
which it were not bad anachronsm for
Morgan man to identify with the pa
rent Of his driving line, the Beautiful
Bay" lie met at one place Sehiman
the elder brother Of Suttum, lie was
riding a bny horse, whose famo had
spread far and wide among the tribes,
and his exploits were the constant themo
Of praise and wonder among the Sham.
mar. lie was of the race of Obeyan
Sherakh, perhaps more highly priced than
any Of the desert. lie had established
his fame when ouly two years old, for
when the tribo was defeated and pursued
By the Aneyza, and the best mares were
taken, the bay colt alone, followed by tho
feetest mounted of the enemy, distauced
his pursuers. With a celebrated bay
horse belonging to q branch of the same
tribe, lie was set apart to propagate the
race Of the purest strains Of Mesopo'
tamia. In size be was small but large in
bone and Of excellent proportions, On all
sides, extraordinary instances were Civ
en- of his powers of endurance aud speed.
CmrvAL-The anecdotc below is late
and fresh Of its class, aud quite au,hen-
tic. Emigrant families, attracted from
old Frauce, are engaged in csalipg in tho
iron working neighborhooi of Connect.
cut. a lad Of the class, employed as a
servant, assisting lady about her plants,
was sent for a 5horel, and returned from
the stable with horse
The MORGAN Book Mr. D. c. Lips.
ley's account of the favorito horses Of
Vermont, makes good progress in his
HhnuS, ana DluS IulT 10 DC Ituul luI 'uo
press, as soon as was at first announced,
say in June Mr.. Linsley spares no
pains to make the book not only all it
ought to be on its own subject, but tho
best book in treating of the horse gem
orally, not scientifically, accessible to us.
The author is young and modest but fuli
Of game, and in tracing the points Of an
imaI history has an enthusiasm 10 his
subject which is telling, and in style al
so, in chapter We had the pleasure of
hearing, combines delcacy Of touch
with life, which shows that the Morgan
horses do not mouopolizo all the finer
qualities Of geutleuess and yigor known
IN Vermont.
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