THE HORSE OF BRASS 229 



the world. Then he ordered the groom of the 

 bedchamber to take off the horse's jeweled bridle 

 and carry it into the strong room of the palace, 

 where it should be locked up among his costliest 

 treasures. This being done, he gave a sudden 

 turn to the iron pin, as he had been directed, and 

 the horse vanished from sight. The knight, too, 

 had disappeared from the palace, and King Cam- 

 buscan remembered when it was too late that he 

 had not told him how or by what name to call the 

 magic steed. 



If any one will go to Sarra in Tartary — wher- 

 ever that may be — and shout the right name of 

 the horse of brass, I doubt not but that he is 

 still waiting to appear. And what more won- 

 derful piece of mechanism could any one wish to 

 own? 



