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Show A TOAST TO THE UttR-E I V.'e don't know who v rote tills tout to the horse, but it s a goo 1 one. and worthy of being place'', beside be-side Vest's famous eulogy on he do.:: ! "Here's to that bundle of M-ntli-r.t i"-rves, with the le-art of a woman, the eye of a gazelle, the courage of a gladiator, the docility of a lave. the proud carriage o: a ki:.e and the blind obedience of a soldier: the companion, com-panion, of the des- rt plain, that turns the moist furrows in the sprit:; in order that all the v. or! i ra.ay r.a e abundant harvest: that furnishes the sport of kit.rs. that with blazir.s eye ' and isteude.l nostril fearlessly leads ' our greatest ccaerals through car-I car-I u.ijze and renown, whose blood forn.s one of the ingredients that go to make the ink in which all history is written, and who finally, in black trappings, pu'.'.s the proudest and the hut-ablest of us to the newly sodded threshold of eternity." |
