A beautiful young girl wandered across an ancient city, she had clear beautiful skin fair as snow, she could be seen from miles away in her bright red dress ...she wandered through massive doorways of the ancient structures that cluttered the city.
As she came to a clearing, something caught the attention of her gentle blue eyes...she saw a man heading a group of horses carrying goods through the city, from where she stood it seemed a horse right at the back of the heard was carrying twice as much goods as the other horses and struggling to keep up with the rest
she ran down to catch up with the heard and take a closer look...she reached the heard of horses and watched as each one passed by and yes indeed the last horse was struggling with a lot more goods than the others, she watched the horse pass by with great curiosity. Suddenly she was startled and ran a few hurried steps back as she felt someone coming behind her, he was a tall old man much of his face was covered with his white beard, he was the one leading the horses. He introduced himself to the young lady and she introduced herself.
He told her that he spotted her coming toward them from a long way, she was hard to miss. He asked her to walk with him as he would enjoy the company and tell her about why this one horse was carrying so much more load than the other horses.
He told her this one horse, the youngest of the lot was the most spirited he had seen
every day he would heard the horses together, load up and take them through some woods to their destination, the woods was a dangerous place with wild animals, he had to make sure the horses were safe, he would walk at the front of the heard so he could scare away any wild animals and make sure his horses were safe, the horses could go to their destination by them self but he always lead them to make sure they would no get lost and be safe from wild animals.
He told her about one time when his most spirited horse, when he first started using this horse to carry goods he was a lot faster than the others always getting to the front of the pack, soon he started walking ahead of the pack, the old man had a hard time trying to keep him with the heard. there was one time when the horse had wandered off so far ahead that he got lost in the woods, the old man had to go searching in the woods to find him and bring him back and another time when the horse had gone off ahead and been attacked and injured by wild animals that is when the old man started to burden him with extra load so he could slow him down and keep him with the heard. The young girl was looking back at the spirited young horse, struggling with the weight of the goods on him and almost coming to a full stop.
The old man re-assured her saying, “do not worry, he will be fine he is just catching his breath”, then her eyes turned back to the old man as he continued…
Saying that he would always walk at the front of the heard but today he was unwell and very weak. He could not rest for the day because they had to transport medicine.
At this point the old man was too tired and weak and had to stop for some rest. All the horses in front started to slowed down. This was a problem because he would not be able to complete the journey in time.
The young girl offered to lead the horses and complete the journey, just then they heard his favourite horse coming from the back with some speed going past them and charging to the front of the heard and all the horses followed him.
The young lady standing next to the old man saw his face light up with a bright smile and she said,
