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Ha! Lory! it was the gray mare wanted to jump but couldn't, and it's the bay can jump but won't! It's an "oh hell!" for you and a "ha! ha!" for me this time! "Which, while they're still fast friends, was the last word ever passed between them on the subject of the funker and the balker."
'Is it only to-day that you have thought that? he said wistfully. 'Well, anyway, I'm glad of it. 'Colin, she said abruptly, 'wasn't it funking a little bit, don't you think running away? 'No not with YOU beside me. You'll have other opportunities for seeing whether I've got much of the funker in me. No doubt those brutes will give trouble some time. 'What can they do?
"If we're of any use at all," pursued Darrin, "it's only on the flank. Now, where would the Navy be with a captain directing from the right or left flank." "Darry, you funker, you could play center as well as Wolgast does." "Farl, you're letting your prejudices spoil your eyesight." "Oh, I've no prejudice at all against Wolgast," Farley hastened to rejoin.
'All right, Ma, he replied. Fetch it in. Beatrice went out to the kitchen. 'And bring the bread and butter, too, will you? called Vera after her. 'The damned coward! Ain't he a rotten funker? said Frank, sotto voce, while his mother was out of the room. Vera did not reply, but she seemed tacitly to agree. They petted their mother, while she waited on them. At length Frank yawned.
Funker! the horse frightened him so, that he went home crying, replied Bob Spangles. 'Hope he didn't lose him? asked Sir Harry. 'Oh no, replied Bob; 'he gave a lad a shilling to lead him, and they trudged away very quietly together. 'The Sorry Union, replied Captain Quod. 'He was out with them once, and fell off on his head and knocked his hat-crown out.
I believe the reason why the majority of hunting people dislike water is that they do not care to ride fast at it, for fear of being crumpled in a fall. I do not agree with the statement that a hard funker rushes at his fences.
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