I am a member of the human species, in the class Mammalia, and the order Buminantia;

I am a member of the great Aryan family of languages, and in India I am called Magadhi. I was born in Magadha, and speak a dialect of the sacred tongue of the twice-born classes.…

I am a horse, belonging to a circle of friends, who have resolved to bear you on the back, at the rate of eight miles a figure-circle, and to deliver you safely within the limits…