CHAPTER XIX

GIVETH SOME DESCRIPTION OF A RIDE “Stand away!” Ben and his assistants leapt nimbly aside, and “The Thunderbolt” thus freed, all fierce protest and stark defiance from muzzle to tail, shook his great head, snorted, kicked, and reared in passionate endeavour to rid himself of this puny, two-legged beast that dared bestride him. So he reared and plunged, leapt and sidled, filling the air with the wild clatter of his mighty hoofs that smote fire right and left with each resounding stroke, but these legs that gripped h…