showers, the rainbow on the cloud,--they would have been the same,
had no human being ever stood on this planet to claim them for ages
as the signs of providence and of covenant."

Gabriella had her own faith as to the rainbow.

"So, none of the other animals was made for Man," resumed David,
who seemed to have some ulterior purpose in all this. "I used to
think the structure and nature of the ass were given him that he
might be adapted to bear Man's burdens; they were given him that he
might bear his own burdens. Horses were not made for cavalry. And a
camel--I never doubted that he was a wonderful contrivance to
enable man to cross the desert; he is a wonderful contrivance in
order that the contrivance itself may cross the desert."

"I hope I may never have to use one," said Gabriella, "when I
commence to ride again. I prefer horses and carriages--though I
suppose you would say that only the carriage was designed for me
and that I had no right to be drawn in that way."

"Some day a horse may be designed for you, just as the carriage is.
We do not use horses on railroads now; we did use them at first in
Kentucky. Sometime you may not use horses in your carriage. You may
have a horse that was designed for you."

"I think," said Gabriella, "I should prefer a horse that was
designed for itself."

"And so," resumed David, moving straight on toward his concealed
climax, "if I were a poet, I'd never write poems about flowers and