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The little stable, a very model of order and appointment, stood at one end of it. She opened the gate, intending to leave the colt in the inclosure, but he huddled closer and closer to her side. "Why Roy, baby, what is it!" asked Peggy, as she would have spoken to a child. The little thing could only press closer and nicker its baby nicker.
With cold reason urging him, he laid the saddle on the ground and went back, his hand clutching grimly the gun at his hip. Rambler's nicker of welcome stopped him half-way and held him there, hot with guilt. "Oh, damn it, I can't!" he muttered savagely, and retraced his steps to where the saddle lay.
It was slow and dragging, and while the voice was the same, yet there was a note of hollowness as he spoke that did not belong there, a note as if it required great effort to speak at all. But in spite of this he recognized his young master, and sounded a welcoming nicker, anxious to be off. For somehow he believed that now he would be taken out into the sunlight. Nor was he disappointed.
From the corral had come a shrill nicker, the voice of the aged mare. But that was not it! With the outcry, seemingly an answer to the black's maddened outcry, the black dropped to all-fours again, turning quick ears and eyes in the direction of the sound! What manner of horse was this, anyway? Never before had he seen such a horse! He felt himself go limp.
The horse waited, his nostrils quivering hungrily at the smell of the oats, and with an occasional low nicker. Bandy-legs went on tiptoes or as nearly as he could in the snow the basin at arm's length before. The dainty, flaring nostrils sniffed tentatively, dipped into the basin, and snuffed the oats about luxuriously till he felt a stealthy hand seize the dangling rope.
I was in my troop lines one afternoon, blackguarding a farrier, when a loud nicker sounded on the road and a black cob, bearing a feebly protesting padre upon his fat back, trotted through the gate, up to the lines and began to swop How d'y'do's with my hairies. The little Padre cocked his head on one side and oozed apologies from every pore.
The waxy mane of the outlaw filly rocked into view as she sprang up and around the turn on to the ridge. On the maverick's back, bareheaded, her brown hair tumbled about her neck, was Carolyn June. Captain Jack pricked forward his ears at the sound of hoofs and as the beautiful mare leaped around the turn and appeared above the bank of the grade the little roan squealed a nicker of recognition.
The male is called nix, the female nixie, the generic term for both being nicker, from a root which perhaps means to wash. There is perhaps some truth in the statement which would derive the Satanic patronymic of Old Nick from these beings, as spirits extremely familiar to the Teutonic mind.
I didn't know the country over here. Had to change change horses a couple times, too. Because " He checked himself. "I made a mistake the last horse. He give me all all that was comin' " A nicker from Pat interrupted him. Stephen felt him cringe. Directly he felt something else. It was a cold hand groping to find his own. The whole thing was queer, uncanny, and he was glad when the man went on.
She did not know this horseman who sat negligently in the saddle and looked up at the cedar-grown bluff beyond, while his horse stood knee-deep in the little stream. She did not know him; and there were not so many travelers in the land that strangers were a matter of indifference. Blue welcomed the horse with a democratic nicker and went forward briskly.
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