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from all of us. Tell me about them. Yours ever, Geo. Ticknor. Thinking over the matter of the moreno, and your question whether I knew any other case in which the color of the horse is put, in Spanish, for the horse himself, I turned to a poor ballad by Jacinto Polo de Medina, in the beginning of his third Academia. It is on the old subject of a game of cañas, and is (of course almost) intended as a compliment to the different persons who figure in it. The first who comes in is Don Jorge Bernal,— En un bayo, cabos negros, Que en una andaluza yegua Engendro el viento ec./quote> Another is Don Francisco de Berastegui, who encomienda Al viento un rucio, and later,— Ocupo Don Salvador Carillo (gloria suprema) Un alacvan que à los vientos A saber correr ensefia. Indeed, I have little doubt that the mere word for color was used in Spanish to indicate the horse, as often as we use sorrel, etc.; and I shall never forget how full half a century ago, in the Reit-bahn at Gottinge<