Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — 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 ehat 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 wae composed principally of a brandishing kill, a Dew-moon neck, a looking-glass skin, and the action of Demosthenes. Ee 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 majestic; magniloquent, yet eloquent He was drilled with the most admirable skill; his manners were so superlative that wJMi all his firework display he could been either difficult So handle or tiring to sit Never was a horse so emphatically suited to his rider; the two more Identical In their frays; each was as glided as the other. As the horse bounded the General (who lyd a weak grip) rocked on him; at svery stride he swung harmoniously In the saddle and bent right and left alternately, like a stage sovereign bow Ing to bls assembled people.—Bladbwoofifw Magazine.