Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — An Arab Stallion. [ARTICLE]

An Arab Stallion.

We bear behind us a mad galloping end plunging, accompanied by frantic panting*. Before we have time to turn round in our saddles there sweeps past us one of our spahis, a big black Vandal, fighting for the mastery with the great Arab stallion he is ri'ding. He sits his horse like a centaur, but he has all his work cut out for him. The animal is one moment rearing up in a perfect fury of rage and the mext starting away with a series of buckjjumps frightful to watch. The Vandal, however, sticks to his saddle like a leech, and horse and man are borne like the wind many hundred yards in front of us. There is a fair field in front, and the Vandal lets the animal bolt away as far os he chooses and suddenly he releases his right foot from the stirrup bag, and. leaning over on his left side, he slaps the beast on his left cheek. Ho thus manages to bring him round to the right in a circle, and at last the horse returns and joins the cavalcade, subdued for half an hour, when the same tight begins again and continues at intervals till we arrive at our “etape.” Truly these sons of the desert are noble horsemen. Bitting upright in their high-* peaked saddles they appear as they move to be part of the mettled horse upon which they have spent their lives since their cradles, and in their white burnouses and turbans they are veritably like flying clouds as they are borne along at headlong speed over the sand.—[Good Word*.