Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — Boulanger’s Horse. [ARTICLE]

Boulanger’s Horse.

The 14th of July was the great day of Boulanger’s life, so far as popular admiration and exterior manifestations were concerned. It was the date of the appearance of the black horse, the horse that became, for the time, a party symbol, a political finger post, a feature in the history of France. He was a prodigiously showy horse, as gorgeous as he was famous; he was composed principally of a brandishing tail, a new-moon neck, a looking-glass skin, and the action of Demosthenes. He seemed to possess two' paces only—i fretting walk and a windmill canter Ie was a thorough specimen of whai lie Spaniards call “an arrogant horse;' le was gaudy, yet solemn; strutting -et stately; flaunting, yet majestic nagniloquent, yet eloquent j He was drilled with the most admiru >le skill; his manners were so superla cive that with all his firework displaj he could not have been either difficult to handle or tiring to sit Never was a horse so emphatically suited to his rid etr; the two more Identical in theii ways; each was as gilded as the other. As the horse bounded the General (who had a weak grip) rocked on him; at every stride he swung harmoniously in the saddle and bent right and left alternately, like a stage sovereign bowing to his assembled people.—Blackwood’s Magazine.