. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . arrested his arm, and exhibited fifteen louis-dors spread onthe palm of his hand, offering the whole as the price of his pur-chase. Although he had treated the execrations of the multitudewith contempt, the timber-merchant was not proof against theglittering coin, and crushed the torch under his foot. The pur-chase was agreed upon, the horse disengaged, and the parties pro-ceeded to the drivers stable, to complete the contract. The carter, mollified by receiving the money, so far beyondhis estimation of the vahie of the animal, said he ought, in
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . arrested his arm, and exhibited fifteen louis-dors spread onthe palm of his hand, offering the whole as the price of his pur-chase. Although he had treated the execrations of the multitudewith contempt, the timber-merchant was not proof against theglittering coin, and crushed the torch under his foot. The pur-chase was agreed upon, the horse disengaged, and the parties pro-ceeded to the drivers stable, to complete the contract. The carter, mollified by receiving the money, so far beyondhis estimation of the vahie of the animal, said he ought, injustice,to tell the purchaser that the horse was the most malignant andungovernable brute he had ever met with, and so dangerous toapproach that he was obliged to put his corn into his manger be-fore he had entered the stable; that, from his vicious habits, hehad bought him for a mere trifle, having given only twenty crownsfor him; that the beggar, when in the humor, would draw well,but when he had a heavier load than usual, would play him the. Fig. 217.—Godolphin Arabian. FromStubbs picture. By J. C. Beard. 310 STALLIONS. same trick he had done that day, and nothing but extreme sever-ity would induce him to do his work. He was also so cunning asto utter groans on the slightest punishment, and then he wouldput on the appearance of submission till he was released from thevehicle, when he would kick and run at him with open mouth,in the most savage manner. The only way he could subdue himwas to keep him constantly in the shafts, so that he could not liedown, either by night or by day; and he placed both horse andcart under a shed, for protection from the weather, the only sleephe got being as he stood. Once a week (on Sunday) he permittedthe Moor to release him, and then the three, Agba, Scham (for suchwas his Moorish appellation), and the cat, seemed in a state ofecstasy. ^ The carter goes on to state that an uncommon attachmentsubsisted between the three; that the Moor doated
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