Chapter IV

A New Home

With the beginning of the forward movement
across the railroad the colt, ears cocked
and eyes alert, moved across also. Close about
him stepped other horses, and over and around
him surged a low murmuring, occasionally broken
by the crack of a whip. Yet these sounds did
not seem to disturb him. He trotted along, crossing
the tracks, and when on the opposite side set
out straight down the avenue. The avenue was
broad, and in this widening area the congestion
rapidly thinned, and soon the colt was quite alone
in the open. But he continued forward, seeming
not to miss his mother, until there suddenly
loomed up beside him a very fat and very matronly
appearing horse. Then he hesitated, turning
apprehensive eyes upon her. But not for long.
Evidently accepting this horse as his mother, he
fell in close beside her and trotted along again
in perfect composure.

Behind this horse was a phaeton, and in the
phaeton sat two persons. They were widely different
in age. One was an elderly man, broad of
shoulders and with a ruddy face faintly threaded

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