I suppose you didn't keep it many days ?" "I have got it still, and mean to ride it with you.

The horse is not really savage.

It was hot-tempered, and had, I think, been badly treated by its first owner.

It only wanted kindness and a little patience; and as soon as it found that it could not get rid of me, and that I had no intention of ill-treating it, it settled down quietly, after running away a few times and giving me some little trouble at starting.

And now I would not change it for any horse in the State." "You must be a first-rate rider," Major Ashley said, "to be able to tame Wildfire.