Pegasus : The Winged Horse
Some of you may have heard that 'Pegasus' was a snow-white steed with beautiful silvery wings who spent most of his time on the top of a mountain. He was as wild and as swift in his flight through the air as any eagle and seemed hardly to be a creature of the earth.
Whenever he was seen up very high above people's heads, with the sunshine on his silvery wings, you would have thought that he belonged to the sky, and that, skimming a little - too low he had gone astray among our mists and vapors, and was seeking his way back. It was very pretty to behold him plunge into the fleecy bosom of a white cloud, and be lost in it for a moment or two, and then break forth on the other side. Or, in a sullen rain-storm, when there was a grey pavement of clouds over the whole sky, it would sometimes happen that the winged horse descended right through it and the glad light of the upper region would gleam after him. Anyone who was fortunate enough to see this wondrous spectacle felt cheerful the whole day afterwards. In the summer time, and in the finest weather, Pegasus often alighted on the solid earth; and, closing his silvery wings, would gallop over hill and dale for pastime, as fast as the wind.
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Pegasus and Bellerophon
When the airy rush of the winged horse had brought the prince once more within a short distance, the monster gave a spring, flung its huge carcass right upon poor Pegasus, clung round him with might and main, and tied its snaky tail into a knot ! Up flew the steed, higher, higher, higher, higher above the mountain peaks, above the clouds, and almost out of sight of the solid earth; while Bellerophon could only avoid being scorched to death or bitten right in twain, by holding up his shield.
But the monster was so mad and wild with pain, that it did not guard itself well; and in its efforts to stick its horrible iron claws into its enemy, the creature left its own breast quite exposed. Seeing this, Bellerophon at once drove his sword up to the hilt into its cruel heart.
Immediately the snaky tail untied its knot. The monster let go its hold of Pegasus, and fell from that vast height downward; while the first that always glowed within its bosom, instead of being put out, burned fiercer than ever, and quickly began to consume the dead carcass. Thus it fell out of the sky, all aflame; and, since night had fallen before it reached the earth, it was mistaken for a shooting star or a comet.
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