Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — 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 horiw that became, for the time, a party symbol, a political finger post, a feature to the history of Franee. He was a prodigiously showy horse; as gorgeous as he was famous; he was composed principally of a brandishing tall, a new-moon neck, a looklng-glas* skin, and the action of Demosthenes. He seemed to possess two paces only—a fretting walk and a windmill canter. He was a thorough specimen of what the Spaniards call “an arrogant horse;” he was gaudy, yet solemn; strutting, yet stately; flaunting, yet majestto; riagniloquent, yet eloquent He was drilled with the most admirable skill; his manners were so superlative that with all his firework display he could not have been either difficult to handle or tiring to sit Never was a horse so emphatically suited to his ridar; the two more identical in their ways; each was as glided 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 bow Ing to his assembled people.—Blackwood’s Magazine.