Excerpt from The Natvral Man: A Romance of the Golden Age There was a clatter of hoofs below, beating the still air vividly, and along the open space of red road down there, perhaps one hundred yards away, flew a naked horse, that is saddleless, bridleless, and on his back a naked man, or nearly so, waving a green branch. Hardly had he disappeared behind the thick shade of overarching trees before she doubted her eyes, so like a relief on an ancient tomb had seemed the muscular figure clinging with sinewy legs to the glossy steed, vine-crowned and branch-laden, cumbered with no garments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.