We were all rather disgusted, as sometimes one sees pretty little Arab horses in Paris.

ON THE | | | | TROTTING HORSE OF AMERICA!

I have friends who never take their horses to the country.

" A few days after this, I persuaded the Indian, by making him several presents, to trade horses with me, and in this way I became the owner of the buckskin steed, not as my own property, however, but as a government horse that I could ride.

Well I blazed away, and as I did so, he raised his head suddenly, gazed in astonishment at us for a moment, with his ears thrown forward, and in an attitude of wildness, and then dashed madly away into the forest, snorting like a war-horse at every bound.

"Gentlemen, I am only racing my horse for sport," said he, "and am only betting enough to make it interesting.

We nearly ran over the Indians who were endeavoring to reach their horses on the opposite side of the creek.

She arrived in a coupe, her maid with her, and mounted her horse from the block.

Some of the parties boldly took their confiscated horses into Leavenworth, while others rode them to their homes.

It required several men to hitch up this frisky team, as a man had to hold on to each one of the horses by the bits, while they were stringing them out.

Considered in themselves, apart from the traditions of formality, these are quite good play material or stimuli, and Froebel meant the time to come "when we shall speak of the doll and the hobby horse as the first plays of the awakening life of the girl and the boy," but he died before he had done so.

I had told the ladies that I would, on the next run, ride my horse without saddle or bridle.

Were these indeed the beings he had known "like ants in the sunless recesses of caves, dwelling deep-burrowing in the earth, ignorant of the signs of the seasons," to whom he had given fire and whom he had taught memory and number, for whom he had "brought the horse under the chariot, and invented the sea-beaten, flaxen-winged chariot of the sailor?"

A certain sultan had a son who rode his horse through the city where his father reigned, and killed everyone he met.

No one is threatening it," Jack murmured, his eyes arrested by a long line of cavalry in undress, leading their horses up a circuitous and hitherto concealed road to the plateau.

The snow becomes soft in the sunshine, and freezes at night, making the mass hard and compact, like ice, so that during the months of April and May you can ride a horse over the prostrate groves without catching sight of a single leaf.

I had chanced to pull Pennington's horse out of a hole the day before, and so saved it a broken leg, but I saw now that I should have done better to refuse that invitation, courteously as it was given, and sincere as his gratitude had undoubtedly been.

"Kinsmen," said Carwash, "none of you ever saw a horse like Dahir, which belongs to my ally Cais.

As they were proceeding thence to Tunis, they received intelligence that Vermina, the son of Syphax, with a greater number of horse than foot, was coming to the assistance of the Carthaginians.

Toward spring, when the weather is warm during the day and frosty at night, repeated thawing and freezing and new layers of snow render the bridging-masses dense and firm, so that one may safely walk across the streams, or even lead a horse across them without danger of falling through.

My father sent a man and horse after me.

At this point, Lieutenant Ward and myself, leaving our horses behind us, crawled to the top of a high knoll, where we could have a good view for some miles distant down the stream.

This will throw your horse before you as a shield, and if the aim is true, 't will be your horse that is hit and not yourself.

The trees along the banks of the stream were literally alive with wild turkeys, and after unsaddling the horses between two and three hundred soldiers surrounded a grove of timber and had a grand turkey round-up, killing four or five hundred of the birds, with guns, clubs and stones.

"These men know best, sir," cried Washington, reining in his horse beside him.