HOW THE ARAB TREATS HIS HORSE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7819, 11 June 1909, Page 1

HOW THE ARAB TREATS HIS HORSE.

It is most interesting to note the way the Arab treats his faithful friends. So inured, indeed, is the Arab pony by long usage and descent to the manner of life m the desert, that even my own' pony positively improved on the treatment, and I never saw him so fit as when he came back from the trip. If the Arab and his horse are 'by legend closely allied, they are, m point of fact, even more intimately ! orinected. His mount is his; first thought, and at all times by far the most interesting topio of conversation ■ _..-■'. He is ungrooined, undipped, unhal-tei-ed, for the Arab prefers to shackle him by means of two ropes, a short cord connecting the fore and hind fetlocks, and a long line tethering him above the hind fetlock to a peg m the"' ground. Thus he can move about or roll",at leisure, and, should there be any rough herbage at hand, can forage for it. ■ ■ ■ Perhps one of the principal reasons why the Arab so excels at long/journeys is that he -never worries: himself, nojr dbes. he ever distress his mount unless there is real cause to do so. He simply continues' a steady walk all day,' and hardly ever gallops'in the wild way m which one so often sees him depicted by artists. " ;