Quitting the dogs for this new assailant, the boar came madly on; the huntsman sank upon one knee, and so true was his eye, and so firm his hand, that the heart of the savage was cloven by the spear.

The youth rose to his feet, dizzy from the shock, and, springing nimbly upon the grim body of his prostrate victim, his fine form swelling with the rapture of his recent triumph, brought his horn to his lips, and again its notes went ringing merrily through the woods.
Echoes, like fading memories, growing fainter and fainter as they receded, gave the only response.
"Where can they be ?" said the youth, "their steeds were fleet.

Out of sight and out of hearing! How completely I have beaten them." He laughed triumphantly as he said this, and, sitting down upon the long grass, began to caress an enormous hound that panted at his feet, as unconcernedly as though the forest now contained nothing more formidable than doves or lambs.

His horse, thoroughly domesticated, strayed a little from the dead boar, feeding as it went.
The youth took off his plumed bonnet, and, flinging back his long black hair, fell into one of those light, smiling day-dreams which belong only to the young and innocent.

He built fifteen air-castles in as many minutes.