Boulanger's Horse

Xne I4th ot July was the great day of Buulaiiger's liío, so far as popular admiration and extarior uianifestations viere concerned. It was the date of tha appearsnce of the black horse - tha horse that became for ths time a party symbol, a political fineer post, a featura ia the history of Frauoe, He was a prodigionsly sbowy hurse, as gorgeons as bo was famous He was composed priuoipally of a brandishing tail, a new niooii neck, a looking glass skin and the actiou of Doroostheues. He seemecl to possess two paces ouly - a fretting walk aud a wiudmill canter. He was a tborough specimen of what the Spaniards cali "an arrogant horse. " He was gaurty, yet solerhn; strutting, yetstately; flaunting, yet majestic; magniloquent. yet eloquent. He was drilled with the most admirable ski 11. His maiuiers were so superlative that with all his firework display he cou'd not have been either difflcult to handle or tiring to sit. Never was a horse so eiaphatioally suited to his rider. The two were identical in their ways. Each was as gilded as theother. As the borse bounded the general, who had a weak grip, rocked on hiru At every ptride he swting harniouionsly in the saddle and bent right and left alternately, like a staa sovereign bowing to bis