Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-02

what Lee laid on HllIs ana Magruuer
divisions at Malvern. It was at the close
of the second charge, when the yelling
mass reeled back from before the blaze OF
these sixty guns and thirty thousand rifles,
even as they began to break and fly back
ward toward the woods, that l saw from
the spot where I lay riderless hoi 80
break out Of the confused and flying mass,
and, with name ard tail erect and spread.
ing nostril, come dashing obliuuely dow
the slope. Over fallen steeds and heaps
of the dead she leaped with a motion as
airy as that of the flying FOX when, fresh
and uniaded, he leads away from the
hounds, whose sudden cry has broken him
off from hunting mice amid the bogs OF
the meadow. So this rider ess horse came
vaulting along. Now from my earliest
boyhood have had what horsemen call
a weakness for horses. Only give me a
colt of wild, irregular temper and fierce
blood to tame, and I am perfectly happy.
Never did lash of mine, singing with
cruel sound through the air, fall on such
colts soft hide. Never did yell or kick
send his hot blood from heart to head
deluging his sensitive brain with fiery cur
rents, driving him TO frenzy or binding
him with fear; buJ touches, soft and gen
tie as a woman's, caressing words, and
oats given from the open palm, and un.
failing kindness, were the means | used
to 'subjugate' him. Sweet subiugation
both to him who subdues and to him who
yieldsl The wild, unmannerly, and un-
manageable colt, the fear of horsemen
the country round, finding in you, not an
enemy but friend, receiving his daily
food from you, and all those little moth
iDgs which go as far with horse as a
woman, to vim and retain affection, grows
to look upon you as protector and
friend, and testifes in countless WAYS his
fondness for you. So when I saw this
horse. with action so free and motion 80
graceful, amid that storm of bullets, my
heart invo' UNFAIRLY went out to her, and
my feelings rose higher and higher at
every leap she took fEom amid the whirl
wind of fire and lead. AS she plunged at
last over little hillock out of range and
came careering toward me as only a rider.
less horse might come, her head flung
wildly from side to side, her nostrils wide.
ly spread, her tanks and shoulders fiecked
with foam, her eye dilating, forgot my
wound and all the wild roar of battle, and,
lifting myself involuntarily TO sitting
posture as she swept grandly by, gave her
ringing cheer.
Perhaps in the sound of a human
voice of happy mood amid the awful din
she recognized resemblance to the voice
of him whose b'ood moistened her shoul
ders and was even yet dripping from sad
die and housings. Be that as it may, nc
sooner had my voice sounded than she
flung her head with proud upward move.
ment into the air, swerved sharply to the
left, neighed as she might to a master al
nnrnIn1 from hor cfo1l nd trot .
directly up to where 1 lay, and, pausing
looked dswn upon me as it were in com
passion. l spoke again, and stretched out
my had caressingly. She pricked hel
ears, took step forward and low cred hel
nose until it came in contact with my
palm. Never did fondle anything more
tenderly, never did l see an animal which
seemed to so court and appreciate human
tenderness as that beautiful mare. l say
beautiful No other word might de,
scribe her. Never will her image fade
from my memory while memory lasts.
I'm weight she might have turned
when well conditioned, nine hundred anC
fifty pounds. In color she was darf
chestnut, with q velvety depth and sof
look about the hair indescribably rich anC
elegant. Many a time have l heard Ia
dies dispute the shade and hue of hel
plush like coat as they ran their white
iewelled fingers through her silker
hair. Her body was round in thu
barrel, and perfectly symmetrical. Sh(
was wide in the launches, without proiec
ton of the hip bones, upon which the
shorter ribs seemed to lap. High in thu
withers as she was, the line of her bach
and neck perfectly curved, while
her deep, oblique shoulders snt
long thick forearm, ridgy will
swelling sinews, suggesting the per
fection of stride and power. Her knees
across the pan were wide, the cannon bone
below them short and thin: the pasterni
long and sloping; her hoofs round, dark
shiny, and well set on. Her name was 8
| shade darker than her coat, fine and thin
as a thoroughbred's always is whose blood
is without taint or cross Her ear wa
thin, sharply pointed, delicately curved
nearly black around the borders, and a,
tremulous as the leaves of an aspen. Hel
neck rose from the withers to the head il
perfect curvature, hard, devoid of fat, anC
well cut under the chops. Her nostril
were full, verv full, and thin almost al
parchment. The eyes, from which tear
might fall or fire flash, were well brough
out, soft as a gazelle's, almost human il
their Intelligence, while over the small
bony head, over neck and shoulders, yea
over the whole body and clean down t.
the hoofs, the veins stood out as if tn
skin were but tissue'paper against whicl
the warm blood pressed, and which
might at any moment burst asunder. Il
| perfect ANIMAL l said to myself, as / lay
| looking her over an animal whicl
might have been born from the wind, AM
the sunshine, so cheerful and so swift sh
seems an animal which q man woult
present as his choicest gift to the woman
he loved, and yet one which that woman
wife or lady-love, would give him to rid
when honor and life depended on bottom
and speed
All that afternoon the beautiful mar
stood over me, while away to the right q
us the hoarse tide of battle flowed an
ebbed. What charm, what delusion @
memory, held her thereS Was nv fac
to her as the face of her dead master
sleeping sleep from which not even tn
widest roar OF battle, no, nor her cheerful
neigh at morning, would ever wake him
Or is there in animals some instinct an
swering to our intuition, only more potent
| which tells them whom to trust an
whom to avoidF I know not, and We
some such sense they may have, the
must have; or else why should this mar
so fearlessly attach herself to meP b
what process of reason or instinct knoI
not, but there she chose me for her mas
ter; for when some Of my men at dus
came searching, and found me, and, lay
ing me on stretcher, started toward ou
lines, the mare, uncompelled, of her owl
free will, followed at my side; and a.
through that stormy night of wind an
rain, as my men struggled along throug
the mud and mire toward Harrisoa's LAND
ing, the marc followed, and ever after, ur
I'll she died, was with me, and was mine
ana l, so far as man might be, was hers.
named her Gulnare.
AS quickly as my wound permitted,
was transported to Washington. WhiGher
took the mare with nae. Her foudness IA
me grew daily, and soon became so marke
as TO cause universal comment. i had he
boarded while in Washington at the CO.