The place that I can well remember was a large meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the on one side we looked into a ploughed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the ; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running overhung by a steep bank.
While I was I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat . In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold we had a nice warm shed near the grove.
As soon as I was old to eat grass my mother used to go out to in the daytime, and come back in the evening.
There were six young in the meadow besides me; they were older than I was; some were nearly as large as grown-up horses. I used to run with them, and had fun; we used to gallop all round and round the field as hard as we could go. Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would bite and kick as well as gallop.