26 THE WONDER-BOOK OF HORSES 



by figures that the sun always stands in the same 

 place, and that the moon is too big to be put into 

 a wagon of any kind; and, after much talking, 

 he succeeded in making a great many people 

 think that he knew more about such things than 

 did the charioteers themselves, or even the Asa- 

 folk, who had started the whole affair. Of course 

 Sol and Maane did not care to stay in the busi- 

 ness after they found that the world was losing 

 faith in them, and so they went into retirement, 

 as people would say nowadays — that is, they 

 turned their steeds about and drove their chariots 

 into the safe and pleasant country of Fairyland, 

 where all such creations of the fancy find refuge. 



