24 THE WONDER-BOOK OF HORSES 



all about their errand and thought only of the 

 fair vision in the sky above them. And so, wher- 

 ever Maane drove his team, there they went also, 

 careless of their burden and thoughtless of the 

 bumps and falls which they got in running after 

 the moon. Maane, who had been watching them 

 all the time, was touched by their devotion to 

 him, and finally, after they had wandered very 

 far from home, he drove his team close down to 

 the earth and lifted them into the car beside him. 

 And now, any bright night when the moon is full, 

 you may see Jack and Jill in it, with the pole lying 

 on their shoulders and the pail of water still hang- 

 ing below it; for they never, never tire of ad- 

 miring the beauty of their master's face. 



The life of Sol and Maane was not an unhappy 

 one, for they loved the horses which they guided, 

 the one daily, the other nightly, over the vaulted 

 blue roof of the sky. There was not much that 

 happened anywhere on the earth without one or 

 the other of them seeing it. For when Sol sank 

 to rest in the great sea, or drove her fiery steeds 

 down behind the western hills, Maane would start 

 out with his feebler team and drive silently on- 

 ward among the clouds and the troops of stars — 

 silently lest he should waken the sleeping earth. 



