Show BEDOUINS AND THEIR HOR HORSES ES Nomad Nomads of of the the Desert be Desert ert tRide Rid Id the trie rV Most roat ost Beautiful Animals E Ever er Sub Sub- Subi j i by Man t Charles Doughty d describe a a m meeting meetIng meet meet- meet meet- i etIng et- et Ing with some Arab horsemen In n the tho f desert These came came near ar they approached approached ap ap- his party and proved to tol be three long-haired long Bedouins wh bid Id tl them em salaam Balaam pea peace Ti Then h he tells s of ot how a ua fourth shock hatred cyclops cyclops' of the desert whom the fleetness of of their their- mares had outstripped trotted In after them uncouthly seated upon the narrow withers of hiss his I dromedary without saddle without bridle and only as a herdsman driving with his voice and the camel His fellows rode with naked legs and unshod unshod un un- shod upon their beautiful mares' mares bare backs the halter In one hand and thelong thelong the tho long balanced lance wavering upon the shoulder In the other Ve should think them sprawling riders for a boast or warlike exercise l In the presence presence pres pres- ence of our armed armed company they let letus letus letus us view how fairly they theT could ride a career and aud turn striking back heels and seated low with pressed t thighs thigh's they parted at a hand gallop made a tourney or- or two easily upon the plain and now wheeling wide they betook themselves down In the d desert sert everyman every very everyman man bearing and handling his spears as ns at point so fetching a u compass and we marching they a little out of breath came gallantly again Under the most ragged of these riders was a avery a- a a. a t very perfect young and startling chestnut chestnut chestnut chest- chest 1 nut mare mare so so shapely there are few tew among them Never combed by her rude TUde master but all aU shining beautiful and gentle of herself she seemed a darling life Ufe upon that savage soil soU not worthy of her gracious pasterns the strutting tall taU flowed down even to the ground and the mane orfa oria was shed by the loving nurture of her mother nature |