In the Land of Mosques & Minarets

Donkeys,

s than the first home of the ancestor of the blooded horse ever possessed. Everything points to the fact that the gentleman knew what he was talking about, as fine specimens of

he diminutive bronchos of the coast plains and mountains. The descendants of the Anazeh mares, the parent branch of royal Arabian blood, ar

of Carthage, long before that little affair of Romulus and Remus startled an astonished world. In all probability he was a descendant

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hoose their Arabian horses, and for hard work they take alwa

arade occasions; but at all times he gives it more care and attention than many heads of families, in more conventionally civilized lands, give their wives. The Arab knows the ancestors of his horse as well as he knows his own; and he has its pedigree writ on parchment, which is more trouble than he has taken to perpetuate the memory of his own remote parents. The A

e. This is the Arab version of it, and an Arab horse owner will hobble his beast with a rope if he shows the least inclination to trot or single foot. If this won't break him, why he sells him to some one

ith difficulty convinced that the gentleman was not an Englishman who would buy only a "trotting sad

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Italian or a Spaniard or a Frenchman wants a horse for a carrousel and no

good. North Africa is the donkey's paradise. Here, if he finds herbage scant once and again, he thrives as nowhere else, and attains often an age of thirty-five years. The donkey in Africa is worked hard, but is neither unduly maltreated nor misunderstood. Perhaps that is why he lives l

explicable care on the parts of their owners, who comb their locks, and braid them, and cosmétique them and put rouge on their fo

re with a heel-tap tattoo in what must be an annoying manner for the beast. From the way the native, rich or po

chacal, a graine de calamité or a chienne. This need awaken no sentiments of pity whatever-for the donkey. They are as much terms of endearment as the occasion calls for. The most common four-footed beast of burden in Algeria is undoubtedly the despised donkey of tr

browsing as he goes, and trots twenty or thirty kilometres a day, encouraged by the whacks and expletives o

less one is disposed to let him stand still for hours at a time, too lazy to do anything but swish and kick the flies away. ?sop's ass prayed to Jov

donkey breathes, the more capable he is to carry heavy burdens long distances. Logical, this! And the procedure, too, improves the tonal quality of the donkey's bray. Well,

for load, he daily outdoes the camel. The latter, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, carries perhaps a weight of three to five hundred. The ass

ulled to turn him to the left, or borne across his neck to turn him to the right. The stick serves

an a St. Bernard. When one hires a donkey to carry him over an étape on some mountain road, it is often a beast from