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Take good care of him the best of care, my dear woman, and don't let him leave you all day." Further on, when Fitz Hugh silently fell into his escort, he merely glanced at him in a furtive way, and then cantered on rapidly to the head of the cavalry.
The oldest of the colts raised his head, pricked his ears, and said, "There are the hounds!" and immediately cantered off, followed by the rest of us to the upper part of the field, where we could look over the hedge and see several fields beyond. My mother and an old riding horse of our master's were also standing near, and seemed to know all about it.
They cantered gaily on, enjoying the pure fresh air, the exhilarating exercise, and the scenery, notwithstanding that its general features were well known to them.
Saturday afternoon, then, we shall ride to the club and have tea. Good-by, and remember me to the baby." "Good-by!" and Nancy cantered away. What a blissful thing the lack of prescience is, sometimes! When James had scraped the soot from his face and neck and hands, and had sudsed it from his hair, James observed, with some concern, that Pirate was coughing at a great rate.
To my intense delight the 'rickshaw instead of waiting for us kept about twenty yards ahead and this, too whether we walked, trotted, or cantered. In the course of that long night ride I had told my companion almost as much as I have told you here. "Well, you've spoiled one of the best tales I've ever laid tongue to," said he, "but I'll forgive you for the sake of what you've gone through.
Ye needn't offer ter see me home," she added, as Jack made a movement to accompany her. "Everybody up here ain't as fair-minded ez Silas and you, and Melinda Bird hez a character to lose! So long!" With this she cantered away, a little heavily, perhaps, adjusting her yellow hat with both hands as she clattered down the steep hill. That afternoon Mr.
They rounded the bend. Clanton, on horseback, caught sight of them. He waved his hat and cantered forward. "Say, Billie, how much bacon do you reckon we need to take with us?" In front of the house Pauline slipped from her horse and left them discussing the commissary. On the Trail The convalescents rode away into a desert green with spring.
Mosey untied the fine upstanding grey horse from the rear of his wagon; I hitched Bunyip to a tree, and mounted Fancy, and we cantered away together across the plain; the ponderous empty wagon Sydney-side pattern with eight bullocks in yoke and twelve travelling loose, coming more clearly into detail through the vibrating translucence of the lower atmosphere. Alf did n't deign to stop.
And, touching my nag with the spur, we cantered along a lean glade, trusting that the track which ran along it would hap to be the right one.
Now you know your duty?" "Yes, sir," said Payne, and Stimson, shaking his bridle, cantered off across the prairie. Then, seeing no need to waste time, the corporal rode towards Courthorne's homestead, and found its owner stripping a binder.
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