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Captain Runacles guessed by this that the four-year-old's question had reference to one of the figure-heads disposed along the hedge. "What is a nymph?" "A sort of girl." "I don't like this sort of girl. She's got no legs." "Come over here and look at this tulip." "There's a much better sort of girl next door," Tristram continued, unheeding.
If you had died, no man need have been ashamed to die your death. 'You were there, then? sobbed Philammon. 'We were. 'And what is more, said Smid, as the poor boy writhed at the admission, 'we were mightily minded, some of us, to have leapt down to you and cut you a passage out. One man, at least, whom I know of, felt his old blood as hot for the minute as a four-year-old's. The foul curs!
Still grumbling to himself, the marquis reached the main corridor, where the scene was almost as animated as in the bar and where the principal topic of conversation seemed to be horses and races that had been or were about to be run. "I'd put Uncle Rastus' mule against that hoss!" "That four-year-old's quick as a runaway nigger!" "Five hundred, the gelding beats the runaway nigger!"
And what few running shots offered, he missed, mainly because of buck fever. Finally, by a lucky chance, he broke a four-year-old's neck, dropping him in his tracks. The hunter was delighted. He insisted on doing everything for himself cruel hard work it was too including the toting and skinning. Even the tanning he had a share in. At first he wanted the hide cured, "with the hair on."
And away she walked fondling Billy Pitt as she led him, and with good reason, for, old though he was, his legs were as clean as a four-year-old's, his muzzle fine and taper, and his eye full and bright, while he walked with the swinging easy stride that surely tells of good blood.
Sol needed exercise, and that afternoon I was permitted the privilege of riding him. Mounted from a chair and settled in the saddle, I felt as if I must surely be bestriding St. Patrick's Cathedral. But at a shake of the reins the parallel ceased. His pasterns were supple as an Arab four-year-old's, his muscles steel springs.
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