Others were so shaven in fanciful landscape garden patterns, as to mark their bodies with curving lines, which were bounded on one side by hair and on the other by the close plush left by the shears.

They had all been newly barbered, and were exceedingly stylish.

Several of the white ones were barred like zebras with rainbow stripes of blue and red and yellow paint.

These were indescribably gorgeous.

Dan and Jack selected from this lot because they brought back Italian reminiscences of the "old masters." The saddles were the high, stuffy, frog-shaped things we had known in Ephesus and Smyrna.