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Jones on his way home" "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" "kiss" "Miss Blake, she's the girl with a foot and ankle" "Daly has never had wool on his sheep" "how could he" "what does he pay for the mountain" "four and tenpence a yard" "not a penny less" "all the cabbage-stalks and potato-skins" "with some bog stuff through it" "that's the thing to" "make soup, with a red herring in it instead of salt" "and when he proposed for my niece, ma'am, says he" "mix a strong tumbler, and I'll make a shake-down for you on the floor" "and may the Lord have mercy on your soul" "and now, down the middle and up again" "Captain Magan, my dear, he is the man" "to shave a pig properly" "it's not money I'm looking for, says he, the girl of my heart" "if she had not a wind-gall and two spavins" "I'd have given her the rights of the church, of coorse," said Father Roach, bringing up the rear of this ill-assorted jargon.
This condition is known among horsemen as "wind-gall" or "fetlock-gall." The sheath of the flexor tendons, which begins about the middle portion of the lower third of the metacarpus, and continues downward below the pastern joint is often distended.
"The near-horse is eleven," I said, "and the off-horse is supposed to be " "Poh! poh! Littlepage," interrupted Guert, making signs to me to be quiet "you may think the off-horse ten, but I should place him at about nine. His teeth are excellent, and there is not even a wind-gall on his legs. There is a cross of the Flemish in that beast."
"Der wind-gall and Aldermen!" he growled, in the dialect of the country; "I should be glad to see the boat in York-bay that can show the Milk-Maid her stern! The Mayor and council-men had better order the tide to turn when they please; and then as each man will think of his own pleasure, a pretty set of whirlpools they will give us in the harbor!"
A man might make a worse mistake than to buy a horse after Xenophon's instructions, to-day. A spavin or a wind-gall did not escape the old gentleman's eye, and he never bought a horse without proving his wind and handling him well about the mouth and ears.
Poor old Kattoo isn't used to this sort of cross-country work, and she's panting there badly enough. That mare is twenty-one years of age. 'She's fresh on her legs not a curb nor a spavin, nor even a wind-gall about her, said the young man. 'And the reward for it all is to be ridden like a steeplechaser! sighed old Kearney. 'Isn't that the world over?
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