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I simply mention this little incident as an example of the fact that popularity is a mighty uncertain critter and a mighty unsafe one to hitch your wagon to. It'll eat all the oats you bring it, and then kick you as you're going out of the stall.
You might have got it before you AXED for it, said I, but not afore you WANTED it, you may depend on it. But stop, said I, let's see that all's right afore we part; so I counts over the fifteen pounds I won of him, note by note, as slow as any thing, on purpose to ryle him, then I mounts "old Clay" agin, and says I, friend, you have considerably the advantage of me this hitch, any how.
"I am dying, Herr... Your knees " Maurice withdrew his knees. "Beauvais; who is he?" "Prince... Walmoden, formerly of the emperor's staff." Johann's eyes closed again, and his head fell to one side. "He looks as if he were done for," said Maurice, standing up. "Let us clear up the rubbish and hitch a horse to the carriage. The mate's all right."
We now carry a convertible rig, so that on narrow trails or in deep snow we can string out the dogs one in front of the other, and when the trail is wide enough can hitch them side by side. "Seal," the Great Dane pup we got at the Salchaket, was a good and strong puller, but he had no coat and no sense.
And between the eager shouts came a moan of sheer despair. What was the attendant doing now? He was tearing two of then: from a last embrace. Three four were sold while Stephen was in a dream Then came a lull, a hitch, and the crowd began to chatter gayly. But the misery in front of him held Stephen in a spell.
The world was employed the whole of the morning in asking and answering this important question "Is it true?" Towards dinner time, it was settled universally in the affirmative, and then the world went out to dine and to ascertain why it was true and how it was true. And now what really had happened? What had happened was what is commonly called a "hitch."
Before, however, he had read above the half thereof, he gave as it were a sudden hitch, and turning round, looked my grandfather sharply in the face, and said, "Are you Gilhaize?"
He had wrought, in his silent, lonely detachment, better even than he knew. His charities, shorn of the degrading elements of many similar ones, were carried on without a hitch. Dr. McPherson, under his crust of hardness, was an idealist and almost a sentimentalist; but above all he was a man to inspire respect and command obedience.
Blake's surmise was: "There's a hitch and we can't go to the front." As it happened, all three were wrong, for a moment later, after he had asked them to be seated, Captain Bedell touched a bell on his desk. An orderly answered and he was told: "These are the young gentlemen." "Does that mean we are to get our permits?" asked Joe eagerly. "I am sorry to say it does not," was the grave answer.
So't when we hitch 'er t' the pole bime bye we shan't be 'shamed o' her. 'Eggzac'ly, said David Brower, laughing. 'An' then she shall have the best harness in the market. Hope did not seem to comprehend all the rustic metaphors that had been applied to her. A look of puzzled amusement came over her face, and then she ran away into the garden, her hair streaming from under her white sun-bonnet.
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