so he lost no time, but took the steel out of his tinder-box, and threw it over the horse; then it had no power to stir from the spot, and became so tame that the lad could do what he liked with it. so he got on its back, and rode off with it to a place which no one knew of, and there he put up the horse. when he got home, his brothers laughed and asked how he had fared?