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The
animal
eagerly
assuages
its
thirst
;
crosses
to
the
opposite
side
;
and
,
with
vigorous
stride
,
ascends
the
sloping
bank
.
Upon
the
crest
occurs
a
pause
:
as
if
the
rider
tarried
till
his
steed
should
shake
the
water
from
its
flanks
.
There
is
a
rattling
of
saddle-flaps
,
and
stirrup-leathers
,
resembling
thunder
,
amidst
a
cloud
of
vapour
,
white
as
the
spray
of
a
cataract
.
Out
of
this
self-constituted
nimbus
,
the
Headless
Horseman
emerges
;
and
moves
onward
,
as
before
.
Apparently
pricked
by
the
spur
,
and
guided
by
the
rein
,
of
his
rider
,
the
horse
no
longer
strays
from
the
track
;
but
steps
briskly
forward
,
as
if
upon
a
path
already
trodden
.
A
treeless
savannah
stretches
before
--
selvedged
by
the
sky
.
Outlined
against
the
azure
is
seen
the
imperfect
centaurean
shape
gradually
dissolving
in
the
distance
,
till
it
becomes
lost
to
view
,
under
the
mystic
gloaming
of
the
moonlight
!
On
the
great
plain
of
Texas
,
about
a
hundred
miles
southward
from
the
old
Spanish
town
of
San
Antonio
de
Bejar
,
the
noonday
sun
is
shedding
his
beams
from
a
sky
of
cerulean
brightness
.
Under
the
golden
light
appears
a
group
of
objects
,
but
little
in
unison
with
the
landscape
around
them
:
since
they
betoken
the
presence
of
human
beings
,
in
a
spot
where
there
is
no
sign
of
human
habitation
.
The
objects
in
question
are
easily
identified
--
even
at
a
great
distance
.
They
are
waggons
;
each
covered
with
its
ribbed
and
rounded
tilt
of
snow-white
"
Osnaburgh
.
"
There
are
ten
of
them
--
scarce
enough
to
constitute
a
"
caravan
"
of
traders
,
nor
yet
a
"
government
train
.
"
They
are
more
likely
the
individual
property
of
an
emigrant
;
who
has
landed
upon
the
coast
,
and
is
wending
his
way
to
one
of
the
late-formed
settlements
on
the
Leona
.
Slowly
crawling
across
the
savannah
,
it
could
scarce
be
told
that
they
are
in
motion
;
but
for
their
relative-position
,
in
long
serried
line
,
indicating
the
order
of
march
.
