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When he got to within a hundred yards, he stopped and approached no nearer. Slommy, Bawley, and the colt had hard work to keep up with the other horses, and it really grieved me to see them so reduced. My own horse was even now beginning to give way, but I had carried a great load upon him.
Besides these we had four pack horses: Bawley, a strong and compact little animal, with a blaze on the forehead, high spirited, with a shining coat, and having been a pet, was up to all kind of tricks, but was a general favourite, and a nice horse; the other was Traveller, a light chesnut, what the hunter would call a washy brute, always eating and never fat; the Colt, so called from his being young, certainly unequal to such a journey as that on which he was taken; and Slommy, another aged horse.
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