He threw the blanket and saddle on the little roan, cinched quickly but carefully the double gear, slipped the bit into the waiting mouth of the horse and without stopping to put on his chaps sprang on Captain Jack's back and whirled him in a dead run around the corner of the shed and down the lane toward the north.

And now, while the trumpets blared, the two knights took their ground, Sir Gilles resplendent in lofty crest and emblazoned surcoat, the three stooping falcons conspicuous on his shield, his mighty roan charger pawing the ling with impatient hoof; his opponent, a gleaming figure astride a tall black horse, his round-topped casque unadorned by plume or crest.

The stout little roan was gathering its muscular limbs under it, and stretching to the gallop as if it were steel and whale-bone instead of flesh and blood.

" The tall roan raised his head and whinnied softly.

" The gallant roan makes head, his feet Approve the flood with care, Then dashes, neighing, through, as if A tiny brook it were. Now come they to the castle wet, Yet wrapt in heavenly bliss; Let them describe who such have felt, The intensity of this.

The honest roan that heard him thus complaine Was griev'd as he had felt part of his paine; 260

Above her, on a raw roan, sat a strong-featured lady in a bottle-green riding-habit, with a top hatthe nap of which had apparently being brushed the wrong way set awry on her iron-grey locks.

" Again the tiny roan was shaking an impatient head.

Louder hand-clapping, stamping of feet, and calling voices, than any that had sounded before, rolled out from the grandstand as the lone rider, on the quiet, unexcited little roan, came down the stretch in front of the great crowd.

Considerations of prudence never entered into the heart of this unhappy young roan, who ran from one excess to another, till an indulgent parent was reduced by his means to very great embarrassments.

be that bald-faced roan out in the corral.

This time he made no comparison of horses but went directly to an ugly-headed roan, long of leg, vicious of eye, thin-shouldered, and with hips that slanted sharply down.

Perhaps some plan may be adopted which will avert the necessity of sacrificing the life of a brave roan in so cruel a mode.

We observed also, what I have often proved since, that the nature of a horse can be told by his colour, from the coquettish light bay, full of fancies and nerves, to the hardy chestnut, and from the docile roan to the pig-headed rusty-black.

be that bald-faced roan out in the corral.