Coaly-Bay, the Outlaw Horse 
aside to wheel and face about. He lifted up his 
voice and called to them, the long shrill neigh of his 
kindred when they bugled to each other on the far | 
Chaldean plain; and back their answer came. 
This way and that they wheeled and sped and car- 
acoled, and Coaly-bay drew nearer, called and gave 
the countersigns his kindred know, till this they 
were assured—he was their kind, he was of the wild 
free blood that man had never tamed. And when 
the night came down on the purpling plain his Z 
place was in the herd as one who after many a long 
hard journey in the dark had found his home. 
There you may see him yet, for still his strength § 
endures, and his beauty is not less. The riders tell ¢ SS 
me they have seen him many times by Cedra. He 
is swift and strong among the swift ones, but it is 
that flowing mane and tail that mark him chiefly 
from afar. 
There on the wild free plains of sage he lives: 
the stormwind smites his glossy coat at night and 
the winter snows are driven hard on him at times; 
the Wolves are there to harry all the weak ones of 
the herd, and in the spring the mighty Grizzly, too, 
may come to claim his toll. There are no luscious 
pastures made by man, no grain-foods; nothing 
but the wild hard hay, the wind and the open plains, 
but here at last he found the thing he craved—the 
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