. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. Ill THE HORSE I. The Lanh of his and his Ancestors miirc for his good qualities when at last he resigned himself and understood what was It is from the vast steppes of northern Asia, wanted of him. His speed made the first great where the tempests rage and man can scarcely impression upon man ; in fact, there are coun- live, that the horse has come. I le did not come tries where his name comes to him from that (if himself, nor has he ever
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. Ill THE HORSE I. The Lanh of his and his Ancestors miirc for his good qualities when at last he resigned himself and understood what was It is from the vast steppes of northern Asia, wanted of him. His speed made the first great where the tempests rage and man can scarcely impression upon man ; in fact, there are coun- live, that the horse has come. I le did not come tries where his name comes to him from that (if himself, nor has he ever given himself wholly quality. In Hebrew, in Egyptian, and in some to man, like the dog. On the contrary, even other ancient languages the word s//s stands now in his civilized state, he turns his back, and for "horse" and for "; The Greek sometimes his heels, on those he does not recog- Avord hippos signifies "; When the horse nize, if the)- come too near him. was seen for the first time at Malacca he \\'as Feeding on those illimitable plains, the wild called kiida-baivng, the horse bird, horse learned to ])erceive at a great distance The people of the steppes finally identified themselves wholly with their steeds. The Mongols, horsemen from time immemorial, show it in their shape and their atti- tude ; they have made, so to speak, \ the horseman type, — curved legs and the upper part of the body bending forward. They sleep on their horses, live with them, boast of them, and lo\'e them more than wife or child. The wild horse still exists, how- ever ; he can be found in the southern regions of Siberia, on the plains of Mongolia, among the Ural Mountains, and in America, where he is a descendant of the horse stock brought marrow, and brains served as food to the o\'er by the Spanish explorers. As late as the dwellers in those ca\'erns. second half of the twelfth century he was It was probably not until much later that hunted in Spain
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