Dobbs, and Mrs. Dobbs and the rest of the children at her eldest
son, who grinned and said, "Isn't it wonderful?" The Corporal to
this answered nothing, but, resuming his account, pointed to the
other horse and said, "THAT horse, sir--good as mine is--that horse,
with the silver stirrups, is his Excellency's horse, Captain Count
Maximilian Gustavus Adolphus von Galgenstein, captain of horse and
of the Holy Roman Empire" (he lifted here his hat with much gravity,
and all the crowd, even to the parson, did likewise). "We call him
'George of Denmark,' sir, in compliment to Her Majesty's husband:
he is Blenheim too, sir; Marshal Tallard rode him on that day, and
you know how HE was taken prisoner by the Count."

"George of Denmark, Marshal Tallard, William of Nassau! this is
strange indeed, most wonderful! Why, sir, little are you aware that
there are before you, AT THIS MOMENT, two other living beings who
bear these venerated names! My boys, stand forward! Look here,
sir: these children have been respectively named after our late
sovereign and the husband of our present Queen."

"And very good names too, sir; ay, and very noble little fellows
too; and I propose that, with your reverence and your ladyship's
leave, William Nassau here shall ride on George of Denmark, and
George of Denmark shall ride on William of Nassau."

When this speech of the Corporal's was made, the whole crowd set up
a loyal hurrah; and, with much gravity, the two little boys were
lifted up into the saddles; and the Corporal leading one, entrusted
the other to the horse-boy, and so together marched stately up and
down the green.