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"It's a kind of upper-class farm-house with a lot of low rooms, and intricate passages, and chambers here and there, smelling of apples, and a huge kitchen, and an oven big enough for a small dinner-party." "I should like the oven." "And a laundry, and a dairy, and a cheese-house, only we never make any cheese; and a horse-pond, and a dung-hill, and a cabbage-garden."
Still, we simply can't get any one else, and Higgins will not apply for a few German prisoners. Get on with your work, you people, do. There, you see, they defy me to an extent. Ever since the cowmen dipped me in the horse-pond my authority's gone gone where the good niggers go."
The girl, who was making some notes in her book, continued her work without the slightest appearance of having heard him. Da Souza snorted, but at that moment he felt a grip like iron upon his shoulder, and deemed retreat expedient. "If you don't go without another word," came a hot whisper in his ear, "I'll throw you into the horse-pond." He went swiftly, ungracious, scowling.
These only heard the first two or three sentences when they rushed upon the sailor, calling on their comrades, who were numerous, to help them to duck the rascal in the horse-pond. The stout tar, although taken by surprise and overpowered, was not disposed to submit without a struggle. He was a very Samson in strength.
Confess! I will try not to be any angrier with you than I can help; but do not you sometimes wish that Algy and Bobby, and the Brat not to speak of Tou Tou were drowned in the Red Sea, or in the horse-pond, at home?" "At least you gave me fair warning," he says, with a smile. "Do you remember telling me that whoever married you would have to marry all six?"
Petulengro became very much excited; and pulling out a handful of money, said, "I'll tell you what, I'll forfeit these guineas, if my black pal there does the horse any kind of damage; duck me in the horse-pond if I don't." "Well," said the landlord, "for the sport of the thing I consent, so let your white pal get down, and our black pal mount as soon as he pleases." I felt rather mortified at Mr.
"No, sir," said the man; "it was one of them there great giants as you read of in books; and no matter how I tried to get away, he only hugged me the tighter." "Well, well," said the Colonel; "but you did escape." "No, sir; I didn't, sir. He carried me right across the field and dropped me into the big horse-pond in the corner.
Moss," said Mary Wells, "here's a villain come and frightened my lady. Go and shoot his dog, you and your son; and get the grooms, and fling him in the horse-pond directly." "No!" said Lady Bassett, firmly. "You will see that he does not enter the house, that is all. Should he attempt that, then you will use force for my protection. Mary, come to my room."
Nüssler, I'm going to spend the day with Charles. Come, Charles, we must be off. Good-by little round-heads." When they were out in the yard Bräsig stood still, and said: "Look, Charles, did you ever see anything more like the desert of Sahara? One heap of manure here and another there! And look, that's the drain old Joseph cut from the farm-yard to the village horse-pond.
Not six weeks before, I was the robber of hen-roosts and gardens the hero of a horse-pond, ducking an usher now suddenly, and almost without any previous warning or reflection, placed in the midst of carnage, and an actor of one of those grand events by which the fate of the civilised world was to be decided.
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