For our young man had a steed which was the observed of all observers. It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair in his tail, but not without windgalls on his legs, which, though going with his head lower than his knees, rendering a martingale quite unnecessary, contrived nevertheless to perform his eight leagues a day.
Car notre jeune homme avait une monture, et cette monture était même si remarquable, qu'elle fut remarquée: c'était un bidet du Béarn, âgé de douze ou quatorze ans, jaune de robe, sans crins à la queue, mais non pas sans javarts aux jambes, et qui, tout en marchant la tête plus bas que les genoux, ce qui rendait inutile l'application de la martingale, faisait encore également ses huit lieues par jour.