With that Red and another squire cantered their great horses to the far end of the lists where they lined up in front of a knight holding up a green flag. As soon as the knight dropped the flag they were off at a full gallop. The boy had never seen anything like it. The big horses kicked up huge clods of dirt and the very ground began to pound.
The squires lowered their lances down to level and about half way down the lists they began to snag rings from the posts. Red missed the first large ring and snagged the next ring, the smallest size and she continued to snag all the small rings. The other squire snagged a mixture of big and small rings and beat Red and Mary to the end of the lists.
At the end of the lists a knight tallied the rings and marked their times. While a group of pa
