Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 5, 2025
"Oh really" with abatement of interest in her tone "I thought perhaps there might be that sort of thing in Canada, you know we certainly read of Northern Lights. Very strange that our train isn't here!" The Yankee took the trouble to reply again, hardly moving a muscle of his face. "Keep a good heart, marm; it may come along yet, a-ridin' on these same Northern Lights."
An' while they'll all be a-foolin' away thar time a-ridin' round that thar ring, ye an' me will be a-gittin' married." Ten minutes ago Jacob Brice did not think riding around that ring was such a reprehensible waste of time. "What's ter hender? It don't make no differ how they jow then." "I done tole ye, Jacob," said the sedate Cynthia, still fanning with the sunbonnet.
And when he finds himself there, a-standin' in the street, near Major Pine's tavern, with his hands in his trouser pockets, a-chasin' of a stray shillin' from one eend of 'em to another, afore he can catch it to swap for a dinner, won't he look like a ravin' distracted fool, that's all? He'll feel about as streaked as I did once, a-ridin' down the St. John river.
The merry-go-round had just come in at that time, and gran'ther had never experienced it before. After the first giddy flight we retired to a lemonade-stand to exchange impressions, and finding that we both alike had fallen completely under the spell of the new sensation, gran'ther said that we 'sh'd keep on a-ridin' till we'd had enough!
I says to him as that was the pig's way and the pig didn't know who it was who was a-ridin' it, and I took his coat off and wiped his stockings, and sent to the rectory for another coat, and he crept up under the hedge to his garden, and went home, and the people at church had to wait for an hour. I was glad I was goin' away from Great Oakhurst, for he never would have forgiven me.
"She jes' tuk him an' drug him plumb ter the bars, though I don't see how she done it, slim leetle critter ez she be; an' thar she holped him git on his beastis; an' then I declar' I feel ez ef I could kill her fur a-demeanin' of herself so she led that thar horse, him a-ridin' an' a-leanin' on the neck o' the beastis, two mile up the mountain, through the night." "Waal, let her bide thar.
"That Josiah Allen's wife looked like a fool, and acted like one, a-settin' up a-ridin' whenever she went anywhere, while them that wuz full as likely walked afoot!" I took them remarks as a tribute to my greatness a plain acknowledgement of my superior means of locomotion and transportation. They didn't break the puff ball of my vanity and pride, and let the wind out no, indeed!
"Swallow 's too fat; Hurricane 's good, but it 's muscle an' wind an' de blood what tells in de last mile blood an' bottom. You keep yer eye on a dark hoss. Gi' me meh money." The loan-broker still held on to the notes, partly from force of habit, while he asked: "Who 's a-ridin' him!" But Robin reached for the bills and got them. "Somebody as knows how to ride," he said, oracularly.
If they kin hang that last deal onto me and you know what I mean why, your Uncle Ed'll sure have to take the long trail. And I aim to keep a-ridin' in the sun for a spell yet. We're gittin' clost to town. Mebby we can drop off easy and sift out of sight without any fuss. Then we got a chanct to change our clothes and git rid of that dough. They'll be lightin' the lamps right soon.
Again he glanced inquiringly at the Dean, who answered the look with a slight nod of approval. "You'd better make him gentle your horse first, Billy," teased Curly. "He might not be in the business when that big one gets through with him." Little Billy's retort came in a flash. "Huh, 'Wild Horse Phil' will be a-ridin' 'em long after you've got your'n, Curly Elson."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking