I knew that I was safe, and so, riding to the top of a small hill, I drew my pencil and note-book from my pocket and proceeded to make plans of those camps which I could see, and to draw the outline of the country.
He was a dear creature upon whom I sat, but it was not easy to draw upon his back, for every now and then his two ears would cock, and he would start and quiver with impatience.

At first I could not understand this trick of his, but soon I observed that he only did it when a peculiar noise--"yoy, yoy, yoy"-- came from somewhere among the oak woods beneath us.

And then suddenly this strange cry changed into a most terrible screaming, with the frantic blowing of a horn.

Instantly he went mad-- this horse.

His eyes blazed.