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"The Phantom Knight, his glory fled, / Mourns o'er the fields he heaped with dead. " -- _Scott._
Jack had the privilege of lifting Maud from her horse, and then their three nags were unsaddled and hobbled. Rejoicing in this "constitutional freedom," they availed themselves of it to the extent of drinking of the lake, rolling in the sand, and cropping with relish the long grass which only grew on the lake-side.