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Do hold your tongue the banner's going up. Here they are 'tenshun! Cosinus is the first!" A red and yellow banner was flapping in mid-air at the top of a mast. The horses came on the course one by one; they were led by stableboys, and the jockeys were sitting idle-handed in the saddles, the sunlight making them look like bright dabs of color. After Cosinus appeared Hazard and Boum.
Custom decrees that the closing scene of a turf tragedy shall not be enacted within sight of the grand stand. Two very young stableboys followed at a distance. "Run away, kids," said the tall man, fumbling at his hip pocket. "You don't want to see this."
Then he went down to the stables. All the grooms and stableboys came tumbling into the stable yard in response to his thunderous shout. "Saddle Red Rover, and be quick about it," he commanded. "Going out, sir?" asked the head groom, touching his fore-lock. "I am," said Mr. Blithers succinctly and with a withering glare.
The post-horn tooted merrily, dogs barked, and stableboys raised a good-by cheer! Out past Harvard Square they went, through Arlington and storied Lexington on to Concord through Fitchburg, to Greenfield. It doesn't take long to tell it, but that was a wonderful trip for Phillips the greatest and most important journey of his life, he said forty years later.
She showed him, with a beautiful emotion, the room in which she had been born, the lofts in which she had played with the stableboys in her childhood, her alder-screened bathing place by the lake, the library where her romantic education had been begun. Here, by the most likely chance, they encountered Considine. He had walked up, as usual, in the morning to read Dante with her.
Here he is generally surrounded by an admiring throng of ostlers, stableboys, shoeblacks, and those nameless hangers-on that infest inns and taverns, and run errands and do all kind of odd jobs for the privilege of battening on the drippings of the kitchen and the leakage of the tap-room.
At cockcrow the stable boys were at work; at sunrise Bishop stalked into the stables, a muslin handkerchief in his hand, which he applied to the coats of the animals, and, if the slightest stain was perceptible upon the muslin, up went the luckless wights of the stableboys and punishment was administered instanter; for to the veteran Bishop, bred amid the iron discipline of European armies, mercy for anything like a breach of duty was altogether out of the question.
"Come, my master, the comedy's played out. Cast aside that crutch and draw; draw, man, or, sangdieu, I'll run you through as you stand!" There was a commotion below. The landlord and a posse of his satellites waiters, ostlers, and stableboys rushed between them, and sought to restrain the bloodthirsty Marsac.
But he suddenly bethought himself, and slowly stepped back from the door. "With the help of my stableboys, he must already be again on the road my official from Sonnenburg," he said. "You think, then, that I can not take the great coach of state?" "Not possibly, gracious sir. It is a morass, such as has not been for ages, and the townspeople have already brought out their mud carriages again."
The Bald-faced Kid often boasted that everybody's business was his business a large contract on any race track of the Jungle Circuit. His stop watch told him what the horses were doing, and stableboys, bartenders, and waiters told him what their owners were doing, the latter vastly more important to the Kid. At all times he used his eyes, which were sharp as gimlets.
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