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at him by one of the enemy . He had been remarked to pursue the man and cut him down , after which he struck no further stroke in the battle . When the strife was ended , with tears in his eyes he commanded his followers to dig a deep grave , in which the faithful companion of his master ' s many wild adventures was buried , with the honours due to a warrior . M . S .
My horse ! my horse ! my noble horse ! My gallant mountain-bred ! Unmatched in courage , speed , or force , Woe ' s me , thou art dead ! I loved thee , as a lover loves His maiden ' s glancing eye , The tramp of thy tmshodden hooves * Was music ' s revelry . Up the verdant mountain springing , Thou hast borne me on thy back ; And , while rocks around were ringing , Dashed down the stony track . The grassy plain like an ostrich-bird , With swift foot thou hast skimmed ; By whip untouch'd , by spur unscarr'd , And thy flashing eye undimmed .
In the race when I bare-backed rode thee , f The costly prize wat * won ; Never rider save rne bestrode thee ; Thy last race is run ! The lofty hedge in the leafy dell , Which our onward course impeded , Beneath thy trampling fore-feet fell , And a pathway ceded . J
* In Southern America horses are rarely shodden , save for use in the paved streets of cities . Those who have once ridden a horse unshodden , will never wish to spoil the foothold of a horse with iron , unless in a case of necessity . With the iron on his hooves a horse loses full one half of hit * activity . . f Th « horse-racing of Chile and Cuyo , is not a cruel sport like that of England . The distance performed is only a few hundred yards , without a saddle , and the excellence conmstsin the quickness of starting and reining up . Speed alone m not the perfection of a horse tramtd to war . A well-trained Chileno war-horse it is scarcely possible to throw down , run him round as you will , at full speed , an ! on any ground . X The land in Chile , where fit for pasture , is enclosed by lofry hedges , formed of the dried houghs and branches of tree * piled together . These hedges sometimes are leagues in length , and when a traveller loses his way in the woods , or on the hill sides , he must break a way through them , as he in frequently enclosed between deep quvbradas or gullies which lock him in . In such a case , ahoise trained to paw down the hedges with his fore-feetas some are . is a most useful companion .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/17/
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