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The Story of My Childhood
"Saxon, I am Roderick Dhu," and trudging along with the old minstrel and Ellen to Sterling tower and the Court of Fitz-James. "Marmion" followed, and then all the train of English poetry that a child could take in.
My second individual ownership
was "Billy." His personality (which I
never questioned), was represented by
a high stepping brown Morgan horse,
with glossy coat, slim legs, pointed
ears, long curly black mane and tail,
and weighing nearly nine hundred
pounds.
Although a good driver, his forte was the saddle. His gait (or rather, I should say, gaits) was first a delightful single-foot; but which he had the faculty of changing to a rack, or pace or trot, as occasion or haste seemed
