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Naturally, this sort of thing didn't make Ab any too popular, and so Binder got a pretty warm welcome when he struck town. He started right out by saying that he didn't see any good reason why an undertaker should act as if he was the next of kin. Was always stopping people on the streets to tell them the latest, and yelling out the point in a horse-laugh.
Over bogs and moors, ditches and walls, across streams, up and down mountains, he gallops, leaps, and plunges, making the welkin ring with his horrible horse-laugh, and snorting fire from his nostrils. There is a funny story told of one Jerry Deasy, who paid the Phooka well for such a ride.
"Oh, I guess not," said the cigar-smoker easily. "You're not built right for it, Hallock; the desert would give you the horse-laugh." "Would it? Not before I had squared off a few old debts, Gridley; don't you forget that." There was a menace in the harsh retort, and the chief clerk made no attempt to conceal it. "Threatening, are you?" jeered the full-fed one, still good-naturedly sarcastic.
On their turning off the rough pavement on to the quiet smooth Macadamised road leading to Waterloo Bridge, his dissertation was interrupted by a loud horse-laugh raised by two or three toll-takers and boys lounging about the gate. "I say, Tom, twig this 'ere machine," said one. "Dash my buttons, I never seed such a thing in all my life."
Could you abide an Angel in an unclean shirt and no suspenders? Could you respect an Angel with a horse-laugh and a swagger like a buccaneer? There were other blackguards present comrades of this one. And there was one person that looked like a gentleman Heber C. Kimball's son, tall and well made, and thirty years old, perhaps.
Quirk whether he himself was in favor of extending the suffrage to women. "I?" cried Mr. Quirk, with a boisterous horse-laugh. "What do I care about it? Let them suffer away as much as ever they like!" "Yes, they're used to that, aren't they?" said Lionel.
Foker the elder burst into a horse-laugh at some of these speeches, and the heir of the house winked his eye very knowingly at his friend. And Lady Agnes then going through her son's history from the earliest time, and recounting his miraculous sufferings in the measles and hooping-cough, his escape from drowning, the shocking tyrannies practised upon him at that horrid school, whither Mr.
The candidate was Gerard Vermilye, Esquire; at the mention of whose name one Norton Bury man broke into a horse-laugh, which was quenched by his immediate ejection from the meeting. Then, Mr. Thomas Brown, steward of the Earl of Luxmore, seconded the nomination.
Lady Anne, after the usual preliminary quantity of nonsense, and after she had questioned and cross-questioned me, to the best of her slender abilities, about the Jewess, told me a long story about herself, and her fears, and the fears of her mare, and a horse-laugh of Mowbray's which Colonel Topham said no horse could stand: not much applause ensuing from me, she returned to the witty colonel, and left me to her brother.
Gallon after gallon of wine and mead disappeared, and everybody got comfortable, then happy, then sparklingly joyous both sexes, and by and by pretty noisy. Men told anecdotes that were terrific to hear, but nobody blushed; and when the nub was sprung, the assemblage let go with a horse-laugh that shook the fortress.
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