An Account of Certain
Episodes in the Career of
PAUL REVERE
as revealed by his Horse,
Scheherazade,
late pride of His Royal Majesty's
14th Regiment of Foot

No haughtier stepper in the regiment than Scheherazade, no loftier-nosed champion of royalty and privilege. Naturally, the fall of this mare was equally great, even to the glue factory; and still more remarkable was the transformation which took place slowly but surely after Sam Adams talked her out of the glue cart into the home of Paul Revere.

Into the home it was, actually. From her stall in the shed she could look right through a window into the kitchen. Thus Sherry became the horse of a patriot, and soon knew all about the Revere family, the trade of the silversmith, and the doings of the Sons of Liberty.

Here is Sherry's story, set down, as it says, by Robert Lawson, who mysteriously also acquired Amos Mouse's story of Ben Franklin and put down in BEN AND ME. It may be "history on a lark," too, but there is surely a lot of truth in it, and what May Lamberton Becker said about the pictures in BEN can just as truly be said about these—"they have clear-cut, definite beauty, like music."

From the dust jacket