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But it's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen. It was that infernal stuff which led to my coming here, that, and a foggy night. I thought myself in luck at the time, when Moreau offered to get me off. It's queer " "Montgomery," said I, suddenly, as the outer door closed, "why has your man pointed ears?" "Damn!" he said, over his first mouthful of food.
She could hear the clinking of his golden armor, the whinnying of his steed, the soft brushing of the branches as they parted before his helmet or his spear; the rustling of the daisies against his great white charger's feet.
"Sir merchant," said Osmond to the first, "see you this steed? Better horse never was ridden; but he is sorely spent, and we must make speed. Let me barter him with you for yonder stout palfrey. He is worth twice as much, but I cannot stop to chaffer ay or no at once."
Soon he reached the lower branches, and looking downward saw his pony resting directly under him! "Blind luck!" he cried. "And I thought it was a wild beast! How foolish I was not to come down and take a look!" Not to scare the pony, Jack called out softly, at which the steed pricked up its ears. Then our hero slid down the tree to the ground and caught the pony by the head.
At length the shouts and cries around it brought Harry's quagga to a standstill, and enabled us to get alongside. I advised him to dismount. "No, no!" he answered. "I have got my steed and intend to him, and if you ride near he'll go well enough." Harry was right.
The furious horse and rider instantly disappeared. A few moments after, the bewildered Clarence saw the redoubted horseman trotting along quietly in the dust of the rear, on the same fiery steed, who in that prosaic light bore an astounding resemblance to an ordinary team horse. Later in the day he sought an explanation from the rider.
"Down on your faces! Down!" And "down" was his last word, as down on his bullet-riven face he plunged, shot dead through the brain. Almost at the same moment McCrea's galloping steed stumbled heavily forward and rolled stiffening on the frozen earth, his gallant rider flung headlong beyond him.
They were then under command of General Mocquard, a brave soldier who was always seen well to the front mounted on a little wiry Arab steed. Soon after this engagement the company, to which many new faces had been added to fill up the gaps caused by the shot and shells of the enemy, was joined to the Arme de la Loire.
Still, on his ruddy couch he lay, his courage quenched at last. At this exploit the plaudits of the assembly filled the blast; They hailed the knight whose bravery and skill had done the deed, And slain the hero of the ring, and saved his goodly steed, And done such pleasure to the King, and to Celinda fair, To the Queen of Spain and all her train who sat assembled there.
From the rath of Badamar Find could watch the western mountains reddening and glowing in front of the dawn, as the sun-rays shot level over the burnished plain. Clocar is thirty miles westward over the Golden Vale, near where Croom now stands; and here were run the races; here Find gained the gift of the coal-black steed.
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