Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the WhiteSteed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger, large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage.

To extricate himself from the stirrups and fallensteed, was to the Templar scarce the work of a moment; and, stung with madness, both at his disgrace and at the acclamations with which it was hailed by the spectators, he drew his sword and waved it in defiance of his conqueror.

Brom Bones, however, was the hero of the scene, having come to the gathering on his favoritesteed Daredevil, a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief, and which no one but himself could manage.

Presently they came to the banks of a wide river, and without a pause the woodensteed gave one final leap and launched them all in mid-air.

It is a land where no man permanently abides; for, in certain seasons of the year there is no food either for the hunter or hissteed. The herbage is parched and withered; the brooks and streams are dried up; the buffalo, the elk and the deer have wandered to distant parts, keeping within the verge of expiring verdure, and leaving behind them a vast uninhabited solitude, seamed by ravines, the beds of former torrents, but now serving only to tantalize and increase the thirst of the traveller.

The stable door is shut, but thesteed's gone, master.'

Over this she folds, with great care, a drapery of scarlet and bright-colored calicoes, and now considers the caparison of hersteed complete.

'Your master the King has sent me hither to tell you to send him his golden armour and hissteed and the silver apple.'' And bring them to me.'

Turning in his tracks, he was about to push the advantage, when his own mettledsteed staggered and fell, under a burden that he could no longer sustain.

A BROOMSTICK which had long served a witch as asteed complained of the nature of its employment, which it thought degrading.

Forsteed he gave her a fearsome dragon with fiery eyes and seven heads, so that all who saw her went in dread and awe.

On the morrow some of the small horses of the Spanish breed, full of vigor and of fire, stood snorting under his windows; but instead of foursteeds, here were fifty, together with their riders.