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He was one evening returning home later than usual on his steady cob, when passing through a copse not far from the Texford gate, his horse pricked up its ears, and moved to the other side of the road, as if wishing to avoid an object it had discovered. Never since he bestrode it had it been guilty of shying. "What is the matter, old steady?" he said, patting his steed's neck.
He penetrated its sacred enclosure and saw the beast Borak, "greater than ass, smaller than mule," and was told to mount. The Faithful still show the spot at Jerusalem where his steed's hoof marked the ground as he spurned it with flying feet.
We all went shopping on the elephant, Captain Kirke kindly showing us round. He and his pony might have passed under our steed's girth. It made a pretty fair block in the traffic of China Street, but the style of shopping seemed to take the popular taste; and from our point of view we could study at ease the various types of people.
Then they stopped so suddenly that Lawrence almost went over his steed's head, while his man effectually did so, and, throwing a complete somersault, alighted by good fortune on his feet.
Then he caught a fat gentleman, who was holding himself on by his steed's neck, in the ear, and the red-haired American girl laughed aloud. "When the thing stops," said Ste. Marie, "I'm going to take a ride just one ride. I haven't ridden a pig for many years." Hartley jeered at him, calling him an infant, but Ste.
'This is a secret between us, Garnet. Your partners 'Shall know nothing. And as for myself, I am as close as an emerald in a seal-ring. Close of the Season HUSSEIN PACHA, 'the favourite, not only of the Marquess of Mash, but of Tattersall's, unaccountably sickened and died. His noble master, full of chagrin took to his bed, and followed his steed's example.
As the horse entered this pathway, and began the ascent, he shyed suddenly, and so abruptly, that a less practised rider would have lost his seat. "Quiet, beast! what do you see?" The traveller himself looked forward at his own query, and soon discovered the occasion of his steed's alarm.
He moved his whip like a fishing rod over the upright plume, increasing the steed's pace with a professional howl.... And as though his cry were among the sweetest of melodies, he continued talking, by association of ideas: "At the fiesta of Piedigrotta, when I was a boy, were given out the best songs of the year.
Into the open ulcer of my heart he poured the acid of all manner of questions concerning my lost steed's qualities and capabilities: would he swim? how was he in fording? did he jump well! how did he stand fire? I smothered my irritation, and answered as pleasantly as I could.
Taken by surprise Satan tried to rid himself of his burden, but the rider sat firm, leaned far over the steed's neck, stroked his head again, pressed his flanks and, after the lapse of a few minutes, guided him merely by the pressure of his thighs first at a walk, then at a trot over the track.
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