Year: 1869

SO tender and touching, seemed almost hu-
man, aud my heart went out to her be-
yond any power of expression, as TO the
only being, of all the thousands around
me, who thought of me and loved me.
Shortly after her appearance at my win
dow, the groom, who had OWNED where he
should find her came into the yard. But
she would not allow him to come near her,
much less touch her If he tried to ap-
proach she would lash out at him with her
heels most spitefuily, and then, laying
back her ears and opening her mouth saw
agely, would make a short dash at him,
and as the terrified African disappeared
around the corner of the hospital, she
would wheel, and, with face bright as a
happy child's, come trotting to the win
dow for me to pet her. l shouted to the
groom to go back to the stable, for had
no doubt but that she would return to her
stall when / closed the window. Rejoiced
at the permission, he departed. After
some thirty minutes, the last ten of which
she was standing with her slim, delicate
head in my lap, while l braided her fore
top and combed out her sillxen name, l
lifted her head, and, patting her softly on
either cheek, told her that she must CO.
gently pushed her head out of the win
dow and closed it, and then, holding up
my hand, with the palm turned toward
her, charged her, making the appropriate
motion, to go away right straight back to
her stable For moment she stood look
ing steadily at me, with an indescribable
expression of hesitation and surprise in
her clear, liquid eyes, and then turning
lingeringly, walked slowly out of the yard.


"Twlce a day for nearly a month, while
lay in the hospital, did Gulnare visit me-
At the appointed hour the groom would
slip her headstall, and without word of
command, she would dart out of the
stable, and, with her long, leopard-like
lope, go sweeping down the street and
come dashing into the hospital yard,
checking herself with the same glad neigh
at my window; nor did she ever once fail,
at the closing of the sash, to return directly
to her stall. The groom informed me
that every morning and evening, when
the hour of her visit drew near, she would
begin to ehafe and worry, and, by paving
and pulling at the halter, advertise him
that it was time for her to be released


But of al exhibitions of happiness,
either by beast or man, hers was the most
positive on that afternoon when, racing
into the yard, she found me leaning on
crutch outside the hospital building The
whole corps of nurses came to the doors,
and all the poor fellows that could move
themselves, for Gulnare had become an
universal favorite, and the boys locked
for her daily visits nearly, if not quite, as
ardently as did, crswled to the windows
to see her. What gladness was expressed
in every movement She would come
prancing toward me, head and tail erect
and, pausing, rub her head against my
shoulder, while patted her glossy neck /;
then suddenly, with sidewise spring, she
would break away, and with her long tail
elevated until her magnificent brush, fine
and silken as the golden hair of blonde,
fell in great spray on either flank, and
her head curved to its proudest arch, pace
around me with I It high action and
springing step peculiar to the thorough
bred. Then like a flash, dropping her
brush and laying back her ears and
stretching her nose straight out, she would
speed away with that quick, nervous, low
lying action which marks the rush of
racers, when side by side and nose to nose
tapping each other, " ith the roar of cheers
on either hand and along the seats above
them, they come straining up the home
stretch. Returning from one of these ar
rowy flights, she would come curvetting
back, now pacing sidewise as on parade,
now dashing her hind feet high into the
air, and anon vaulting up and spring ng
through the air, with legs we'll under Aer,
as if in the act of taking q FIVE barred
gate, and finally would approach and
stand happy in her rewsrd-my caress.


"The war, at last, was over. Gulnare
and | were in at the deah with Sheridan
at the Five Forks. Together we had
shared the pageant at Richmond and
Washington, and never had l seen her in
better spirits than on that day at the capi-
tai. 1t was a sight indeed, to
see her as she came down Penn.
sylvania Avenue. If the trium-
phant procession had been all in her honor
and mine, she could not have moved with
greater grace and pride. With dilating
eye and tremulous ear, ceaselessly champ
ing her bit, her heated blood bringing out
the magnificent lace-wOrk of veins over
her entire body, now and then pausing,
and with snort gathering herself back
upon her launches as for mighty leap,
while she shook the froth from her, bits,
she moved with high prancing step down
the magnificent street, the admired Of all
beholders. Cheer after cheer was given
huzza after huzza rang out over her head
from roofs and balcony, bouquet after bou,
quet was launched by fair and enthusias
tic admirers before her; and yet, amid the
crash and swell of music, the cheering anC
tumult, so gentle and manageable was she
that, though could feel her frame Greer
and tremble under me as she moved
through that whirlwind of excitement, nc
check or curb was needed, and the bride
lines-the same she wore when she came
IN Of Ial los I'll l..
pommel of the saddle. Never before haC
[ seen her so grandly herrelf Never be


fore had the fire and energy, the grace an6
selves. This was the day and the even
she needed. And all the royalty of heI
ancestral breed,-a race of equine kings
flowing as without taint or cross from
him that was the pride and wealth of the
whole tribe of desert rangers, expressed
itself in her. need not say that I shared
her mood. sympathized in her every step
entered into all her royal humors. / pat
ted her neck and spoke loving and cheer
full words to her. l called her my beauty
my pride, my pet. And did she no


understand me? Every word9 Elst


why that listening ear turned back Il
catch my softest whisper why the re


sponsive quiver through the frame, anC
the low, happy neighG WELL i ex
claimed, as I leaped from her back al


the close of the review,-alas tina


words spoken in lightest mood should


portend so much well, Gulnart


if you should die, your life has had it


triumph. The nation itself, through it
admiring capital, has paid tribute I,


your beauty, and death can never rob yoI


of your fame And / patted her mois


neck and foam fecked shoulders, whilt
the grooms were busy with head ant
loins.


"That night our brigade made its biv


ouac just over Long Bridge, on the identi


cal spot where four years before l haS


camped my company of three months


volunteers. With what experiences o


march and battle were those. four year


filed For three of these years Gulnar,


had been my constant companion. Will


me she had shared my tent, and not rarely


my rstions, for in appetite she was trulI


human, and my steward always countet


her as one of our mess Twice had shi