"How many times must they go round this inclosure," he inquired, "before the race is ended?"
He is the final authority--the umpire of the race."
If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one.
When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race. As a Christian patriot, as a teacher of Christianity, I go to my country,--my chosen, my glorious Africa!--and to her, in my heart, I sometimes apply those splendid words of prophecy:
All this has given place to the simple plan of an indefinite extension among the neglected classes of both
races of the Hampton-Tuskegee system of training.
If a Mahar had found it, which was quite improbable, the chances were that the dominant race would never divulge the fact that they had recovered the precious document.
The Mahars listened to the report of the Sagoth chief-tain, and so difficult is it to judge their emotions from their almost expressionless countenance, that I was at a loss to know how terrible might be their wrath as they learned that their great secret, upon which rested the fate of their race, might now be irretrievably lost.
The horses who had run in the last race were being led home, steaming and exhausted, by the stable-boys, and one after another the fresh horses for the coming race made their appearance, for the most part English racers, wearing horsecloths, and looking with their drawn-up bellies like strange, huge birds.
Feeling that with the others riding in the race, he was the center upon which all eyes were fastened, Vronsky walked up to his mare in that state of nervous tension in which he usually became deliberate and composed in his movements.
But if my friend the Real Horse is willing to undertake the
race I am quite ready."
Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical
races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects.
Immediately the necessity for males ceased to exist--the
race was no longer dependent upon them.