The black stallion returns.

Even as it was, he had once brought home a most dreadful thing called "A Bedouin Love Song," for a bass voice, truly enough, but so fearfully outspoken about matters far better left unmentioned among nice people that the three girls had fled horrified from the room after that first verse: "From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire, And the wind is left behind In the speed of my desire.

But this hard fare keeps down the fiery spirit of these stallion barbs, otherwise they would be unmanageable.

A vet. belongs to the stallion class of people.

I begin to think that Pertinax is wiser to amuse himself with women after all!" Sextus edged his horse a little closer to the skewbald and for more than a minute appeared to be studying Norbanus' face, the other grinning at him and making the stallion prance.

In he went, with all his weight behind the effort, and felt the stallion stagger on his hind legs, then topple, lose balance, and fall with a crash on his side!