Well, I suppose I
can find my way back." Edward then surveyed the whole herd of ponies,
which were at no great distance from him. There was a fine horse or
two among them, which appeared to be the leaders of the herd. They
allowed Edward to approach to within two hundred yards, and then, with
manes and tails streaming in the air, they darted off with the
rapidity of the wind.
"Now I'll puzzle Humphrey when I go back," thought Edward. "He says
that Billy is getting old, and that he wishes he could get another
pony. I will tell him what a plenty there are, and propose that he
should invent some way of catching one. That will be a poser for him;
yet I'm sure that he will try, for he is very ingenious. And now,
which way am I to turn to find my way home? I think it ought to be to
the north; but which is north? for there is no sun out, and now I
perceive it looks very like rain. I wonder how long I have been
walking! I am sure I don't know." Edward then hurried in a direction
which he considered might lead him homeward, and walked fast; but he
once more fell into his habit of castle-building, and was talking to
himself: "The king proclaimed in Scotland! he will come over of
course: I will join his army, and then--" Thus he went on, again
absorbed in the news which he had gained from Oswald, till on a sudden
he again recollected himself, and perceived that he had lost sight of
the copse of trees on a high hill, to which he had been directing his
steps.
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