A visually impaired harp-player makes plans to take King Henry of England's dark colored steed, in a few forms, subsequently of a wagered for significant stakes. He tells his better half of his arrangements and that he needs their great dim horse to accomplish them. She concurs, and instructs him to desert the foal, as the horse will rapidly come back to her as yet suckling youthful. He sets off and, at Carlisle, he meets the ruler, who requests a tune. The harper answers that he'd rather have a stable for his female horse. The ruler advises his steady kid to house the dim female horse beside his own particular darker steed.

 Presently the harper plays and sings so perfectly that he entrances his group of onlookers and they all nod off. He tiptoes out of the room, advances toward the steady, ties the two steeds together and discharges them. The great dark female horse advances back home taking the stolen darker stallion with her. At the point when the morning comes, the harper dishonestly grieves the loss of his stallion, saying that, therefore, her foal will bite the dust. The ruler lets him know not to fuss and makes great the harper's misfortunes by paying him for the foal and three times the value of the great dim female horse. In this way the harper wins his wagered as well as gets liberally compensated for the creatures that he never lost