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Show mMi llorMt of tho Clrotb. Tlio Qreeks were genuine lovers of horv It wai claimed tliat iNxldeon itrnck tho earth and prudntM the horse a pnrtle way cf saying that horse were first Imported Into Orec from be yond tho sea. Homer's favorite appellation appella-tion for the (Jreek heroes Is "tamer of hones." An 1 almost every 150 of the Hlml ihows that Uomrr s admiration for tho chief tilns li alnrnt mntchiI by hli enthuilasm for tlw firm footed coantfrw, the fiery te-d, tho horses famnl Id war No common, animals were these of the Urecks and Trojans. The horses of .Xneav were of the itock which Zns the thundertr gavetoTrt. Tlio horses of Kheui were as glorious as the sunt the snow was not so whit, the wlud not so swift as they. The horses of Dromed sctmed to bo In tho air nt they Jlew alon, but of all tho horses that proudly dUtlngulsheil themselves In that famous war, tho wooden horM took tho kwl U r efllclency It was tho wooden borne that gave Troy to the Urcoka. Caroline K. bhermau fu Chi ca go Herat b |