“I have ridden a great deal while I have been away exploring. Not, of course, horses like this, but very strange ones. Some of them were very weird and had odd ways of ridding themselves of a rider that could be very painful!”
Georgina giggled.
“I thought you were going to tell me that you had ridden nearly every sort of animal besides a horse!”
“It’s true,” Alister replied. “I did have a favourite elephant and a very un-favourite mule!”
“Did it unseat you?”
“It had a terrible habit of turning round and biting my legs, while my elephant was slow but trustworthy.”
“You know I am longing to hear all about your travels,” Georgina remarked. “But I have been too polite to press you into talking about them until you wished to.”
“I don’t think you would be particularly interested,” Alister
