" together let us swcctIy live,
Together let US die"

The Arabian Horse,
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most moving incident, illustrative of the ex.
traordluary strength us well as the attachment Of
tho Arab horses, is given by Lamartino in Lls
bculIEul Travels in the East


"An Arab chief, with his tribe, had attacked
in the night caravan Of Dumas, and pIundered
it: when loaded with their spoil, howoror, the rob.
bers were overtaken on their return by somo
horsomen of the PacAa of Acre, who killed sew
oral. and bound the remainder with cords. In
this state of bondange they brought one of the
prisoners, named Abou eI Marck, to Acre, and
laid him, bound hand and foot, wounded as he
was, at the entrance of their tent, as they sepl
curing the night. Kept awake by the pain of his
wounds, the Arab heard his horse 5 neigh at a
little distance. Poor friend says he, what
will you do among tho Turks You will be shut
up under the roof OF khan, with the horses of
pach or an aga; no longer WILL the women and
children of the tent bring you barley, camel's
milk, or dourra,' IN the hollow of their hand ::
no Ionge" will You galiop free as the wind Of
Egypt IN the desert; no longer will vou cIeave
with your bosom the waters Of tho Jordan. which
OF the Jordan, which cool your sidos, as pure as
Ihe foam of your lips. If | am to be & slave. IA,
least you may go free. Go: return 10 our
tent, which you know so well; tell nv wife
that AbOu el Marck will roturn no more: bnt mt
your head still into the folds of the tent and licl,
the hands Of my beloved Children With rhes,
words, as his hands were tied, he undid with his
teeth the letters which held the courser bound. and
sci him at liberty; but the noble animal ON ro.
covering its freedom, instead of bounding away
| TO the desert, bent ito hood ito uruetrr,
seeing him in tettors on the ground, took his
clothes gently in his teeth, lifted him up, and Sc.
of at full speed for home, Without'ever resting


he made straight for the distant but weliknowu


tent in the mountains of raba. He arrived


there in safety, aud laid hts master safe down a


the feet Of his wife aud children, and immedialss
ly dropped down dead with fatigue. The who'll
tribe mourned him tho poets celebrated his fdel
/ hy and his name is still constantly ia the mouih
Of the Arabs Of jericho ~ Uncle Sam. ~