When Brown Adam was saddled, and the stable-door opened, the horse would trot round to the leaping-on stone of his own accord, to be mounted, and was quite intractable under any one but Scott.

Scott's life might well be fairly divided--just as history is divided into reigns--by the succession of his horses and dogs.

The reigns of Captain, Lieutenant, Brown Adam, Daisy, divide at least the period up to Waterloo; while the reigns of Sybil Grey, and the Covenanter, or Douce Davie, divide the period of Scott's declining years.

During the brilliant period of the earlier novels we hear less of Scott's horses; but of his deerhounds there is an unbroken succession.

Camp, Maida (the "Bevis" of _Woodstock_), and Nimrod, reigned successively between Sir Walter's marriage and his death.