"Yes: is that Spinach?" answered the little man on Billy's chest. "Come on, I've got Billy Bounce tied down tight and we can make a splendid spring board of him."
"But where do I come in?" asked the Night Mare plaintively; "aren't you going to let me have a little horse play?"
"Certainly," said Gammon, "when we're through you can take a little ride on Billy—and be sure you ride him so hard that he can never get to Never Was and Bogie Man."
"By the manes of my ancestors I'll do that," said the Night Mare. "I'll put him to the rack, never fear."
The Night Mare and the Dream Food Sprites.—Page 101.
"Then tie yourself to the Singing Tree while the rest of us are playing."
"I don't want to be tied," said the Night Mare sulkily.
"Now do as you're told," said Gammon. "Suppose you should run away from yourself and leave yourself behind, how would you ever get home?"
"Well, if I must I must," said the Mare, wiping an oil tear from her eye.