And are we not justified in believing that what has taken place with the war-horse applies also to other horses destined for continuous work? Hence are we not right in always preferring the Arab to the English stallion, when it is a question of improving the different breeds of work and draft-horses, as well as the war horse? The Arabian stallion would seem so much the more fit for this use, as a long experience has proved that his get upon our native mares are much heavier than himself; they, at the same time, always transmitting a rich, unblemished blood and a solid frame—qualities which are preserved indefinitely. The Arab horse imparts, also, great endurance to his progeny, and without going back as far as the turf, where we see figuring on the top round of the ladder _Arlequin_, _Zephyr_, _Valencia_, _Corysandre_ the Lorraine, whose dam was an Arabian of _Deux-Ponts_, _Anthony_, _Eylau_, _Kasbas_, and _Palmyre_, let us be satisfied with citing in mass, all the fine and spirited breeds of Limousin, Navarre, Bigorre, Tarbes, and Auvergne, showing in every pore the presence of the Oriental blood. It is also especially to be remarked, although the Arab does not trot and only gallops, that all his get are quick, square trotters. We can produce numberless examples of this, although Arab blood has been infinitely less disseminated than any other in our Northern districts. We can cite the famous _Eclipse_ of M. de Narbonne, the no less famous _Herminie_ of M. Forcinal, all the descendants of _Bacha_, _Aslan_ and _Gallipoli_, which were matchless, and the noble sons of _Massoud_, _Eylau_, and _Noteur_. But, as all these have a certain amount of English blood joined to the Arab, we shall be answered:—It was the English blood that trotted and gave them their winning points.—We will confine ourselves to citing only the sons of _Bédouin_, all admirable trotters, though all coming of poor Brittany mares, the _Kerims_, the _Avisos_, and the _Moggys_, whose fine action invariably attracts the attention of every one. But the endurance possessed by the Arab in so eminent a degree is not the only quality to be considered. It is also the opinion of the best breeders that the race is good tempered, docile, patient, of great precocity, and easily raised, all of which qualities it invariably transmits to its get. No steeple-chase horses have shown themselves more intelligent than _Pledge_, _Raphael_, _Senora_, and above all the immortal _Franc-Picard_, by whom the best riders found themselves excelled in the art of measuring an obstacle and mastering it skillfully; also, those were deep in the Arab blood. If _Auricula_, notwithstanding he was a son of _Baron_, with his variable and peevish temper has shown himself to be, when he chose, one of the best leapers of our age, it is because through his dam he is of Arab blood.