Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 · Boston : Hall and Locks · leaf 313
lain still a short time he beard somethino; thatsounded as ifa horse werestanding chew-ing just outsidethe barn door.He stole to thedoor, which wasajar, to see whatwas there, andIt was so big and fat andfine a horse that Cinderlad had never seen one like itbefore, and a saddle and bridle lay upon… … there stood a horse eating. The Princess on the Glass Hill 277 took out his steel for striking fire, and threw it over thehorse, and then it had no power to stir from the spot,and became so tame that the boy could do what he hkedwith it. So he mounted it and rode away to a placewhich no one knew of…
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