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"O horrible," she murmured. "The spirit of buttermilk I saw him he threatened me " "The horse!" cried Quimbleton, with fierce energy. "The Bishop's horse in the stable!" They ran wildly to the rear quarters of the Home, where they found the Bishop's famous charger whinneying in his stall. All three leaped upon his back.
Then all the ducks and fowls about the place were inquiring, in noisy cackle, how long it would be before breakfast was ready, whilst "Helen's" whinneying made me turn my head to see her, with a mob of horses at her heels, coming over the nearest ridge on the chance of a stray carrot or two going begging.
Just then there was the sound of hoofs, and old "Sue," "Magic" and "Marvel" and the colt "Arbutus" raced up from the pasture, and into the barnyard. Uncle Sam drew a handful of apples out of his capacious pockets, and the horses came whinneying and ate them out of his hand.
Nighthawk came trotting and whinneying to him. "I have one friend in the world, old boy," he said, throwing his arm over the black, glossy neck and searching his pocket for a biscuit. "And even you," he added bitterly, "I fear do not love me for naught." Saddling his horse, he mounted and calling Little Thunder to him said: "Take the bunch on as far as the Big Canyon and wait there for me.
She was so blind with hate of Yaverland that she was not aware of his presence till he bent over her, whinneying in the slow, complacent accents of Scottish sentiment, "Nelly, Nelly, what ails ye, lassie? Nothing's happened! I'll put it all right." "Yes, of course nothing's happened!" she snapped, her hand on the doorknob. "Who said it had?"
Aldous saw the colt, with its small head and shoulders high out of the water, sweep down like a chip with the current. A cold chill ran through him as he heard the whinneying scream of the mother a warning cry that held for him the pathos and the despair of a creature that was human. He knew what it meant. "Wait I'm coming I'm coming!" was in that cry.
The progress of the parade, however, was halted by the behavior of the Bishop's horse, for which no mask had been provided. The noble animal, under this sudden and extraordinary stimulus, was almost human in its actions. At first it stood, whinneying sharply, and pawing the air with one forefoot as though feeling for the brass rail, as one of Bleak's companions said.
He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother.
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