I will explain the magic as we ride." "You are going to show me the way ?" he cried eagerly, starting toward his horse.
"I really think it would be best," she said demurely.
"Now I know you are a good fairy, or a guardian angel, or something like that," he returned, setting his foot in the stirrup to mount.

Then suddenly he paused, with, "Wait a minute, please.

I nearly forgot." And very carefully he examined the saddle girth to see that it was tight.
"If you had remembered to throw your bridle rein over Snip's head when you left him, you wouldn't have needed a guardian angel this time," she said.
He looked at her blankly over the patient Snip's back.
"And so that was what made him go away?
I knew I had done some silly thing that I ought not.

That's the only thing about myself that I am always perfectly sure of," he added as he mounted.

"You see I can always depend upon myself to make a fool of myself.