THE WONDER-BOOK 

 OF HORSES 



HELIOS'S FOUR-IN-HAND 



HELIOS, as you know, was the most famous 

 charioteer that the world had ever seen. 

 Just how long he had been driving the chariot 

 of the Sun nobody could tell; but it must have 

 been many, many years. People said that he had 

 never done anything else; and the oldest inhabi- 

 tant had no recollection of the time when he be- 

 gan. He never missed a day — not even Sunday; 

 and on holidays he was always up and at it early, 

 cracking his whip cheerily to waken the children. 

 Starting from the home of the Dawn in the far, 

 far East, he made a daily trip to the verge of Old 

 Ocean's stream in the distant West. How it was 



