his little boy standing by the pump, and looking at him wistfully.
Then the coachman took his foot out of the stirrup, left his hold
of the mane and bridle, came across to his boy, lifted him up,
and setting him on the horse's back, told him to sit up like a man.
He then led away both Diamonds together.

The boy atop felt not a little tremulous as the great muscles that
lifted the legs of the horse knotted and relaxed against his legs,
and he cowered towards the withers, grasping with his hands the bit
of mane worn short by the collar; but when his father looked back at him,
saying once more, "Sit up, Diamond," he let the mane go and sat up,
notwithstanding that the horse, thinking, I suppose, that his
master had said to him, "Come up, Diamond," stepped out faster.
For both the Diamonds were just grandly obedient. And Diamond soon
found that, as he was obedient to his father, so the horse was
obedient to him. For he had not ridden far before he found courage
to reach forward and catch hold of the bridle, and when his father,
whose hand was upon it, felt the boy pull it towards him, he looked
up and smiled, and, well pleased, let go his hold, and left Diamond
to guide Diamond; and the boy soon found that he could do so perfectly.
It was a grand thing to be able to guide a great beast like that.
And another discovery he made was that, in order to guide the horse,
he had in a measure to obey the horse first. If he did not yield
his body to the motions of the horse's body, he could not guide him;
he must fall off.

The blacksmith lived at some distance, deeper into London.
As they crossed the angle of a square, Diamond, who was now quite
comfortable on his living throne, was glancing this way and that in
a gentle pride, when he saw a girl sweeping a crossing scuddingly