With ring of steel, with jingle of stirrup and bridle-chain they swung away up the slope and plunging into the gloom of the forest were gone; only Sir Benedict paused to turn in his saddle and lift unwounded arm in salutation ere he too vanished into the shadows of the wild-wood.

We took his saddle and skin and passed on.

It was now that Lewis saw Donnegan sitting the saddle directly behind him, and he whirled with a moan of fury.

I had my gun in my hand, and several times I was strongly tempted to shoot him, and would probably have done so had it not been for fear of bringing Indians down upon me, and besides he was carrying the saddle for me.

King was removing Blackie's saddle.

But I stuck to my fifteen pounds hard and fast, and at last he said, "Well, Mr. Hawkins, I'll give you all you ask, if so be you'll throw in the saddle and bridle!

" So, leaving my saddle and bridle with the wagons, we rode to the windward of the buffaloes, as usual, and when within a few hundred yards of them we dashed into the herd.

" Unthinkingly, Stafford obeyed, and got the saddle on the jigging and dancing youngster.

"Stand firm, and we yet have a good chance of holding our own!" All the while Sergeant Corney and I worked over him he continued to cheer the frightened men, until, by the time we had dragged him to where he could sit upright with his back against a huge tree, placing his saddle beneath him to serve as a prop, the men were beginning to understand that the only chance for life was to fight desperately.

So fierce was that onset that each horse fell back upon the ground and only by great skill and address did the knight who rode him void his saddle, so as to save himself from a fall.

"That's it, you see," he observed; "you probably have not ridden cross saddle very long.

Quickly she stepped over, picked up the saddle, bridle and blanket, returned to the corral gate, swung it open and entered.

"Now I'll hold itit will be quieter with meif you will please change the saddle.

In another moment she had untied the cinch and drawn off the saddle.

Sarrion quitted the saddle and went indoors to order coffee while Marcos sat on his tall black horse scanning the road in front of him.

The ponies were brought into the sea, and we mounted the pack-saddles; some of our company being carried from the boat on men's backs.

"But I don't want a side-saddle.

It was in his mind to slap a saddle on his bronco and ride after her.

Thereafter came he to the destrier Mars and, having saddled and bridled him with the same swift stealth, set foot in stirrup and would have mounted, yet found this a painful matter by reason of his wound; thus it befell, that, ere he could reach the saddle, the leaves parted close by and Sir Fidelis spake soft-voiced: "My lord Beltane, why dost thou steal away thus?

Godthis is horrible!" Mechanically Hardwick got some hay down for the horse, while MacPherson pulled off the saddle and bridle, examining both in the process.

This day we employed ourselves in repairing our pack-saddles, which it was found necessary to restuff, as they had been padded with coarse rushes; the saddle-bags had been torn to pieces, and the repairs of these required more time than could be afforded in an evening's bivouac.

In every place you beheld squires leading horses and destriers by the bridle, setting saddles on hackneys and taking them off, buckling the harness and making the metal work shining and bright.

Parker climbed silently from the Clagstone "Six" and lifting out a new saddle went toward the stable.

He soon came back, leading a magnificent bay horse, and began to adjust the saddle.

Meantime Kenneth had reached the stable, thrown a bridle over the head of a fine sorrel mare, and scorning to use a saddle leaped upon her back and dashed down the lane and out at the rear gate upon the old turnpike road.