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And, when a messenger, dressed as a yeoman in green, had come into the bright gallery to beg the Queen and that fair lady the Lady Katharine Howard to come a-riding side by side and witness the sports that certain poor yeomen made in the woods upon Thames-side, she felt a sinking in her heart that no Rhenish of the Queen's could relieve.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Murad Shah son of Fakhr Taj thus bespake his mother, she rejoiced in his speech. Now he used to go a-riding with two hundred Marids till he grew to man's estate, when he and they fell to making raids and cutting off the roads and they pushed their razzias farther till one day he attacked the city of Shiraz and took it.
The boy was close by my side, when, startled at a noise, he turned round and exclaimed "Oh! look, mamma; look, papa; there are a lady and a gentleman a-riding." I turned round, and saw Mr Somerville and Emily on horseback, within six paces of me; so still they stood, so mute, I could have fancied Emily a wax-work figure.
But 'e's a hunfeeling wretch, 'e is, for when I goes 'ome arter feedin'-time o' nights, and thinks I'll just smoke a quiet pipe, 'e ups and says, "Lincoln Steeplechase, guv'nor, and I'm a-riding you."
"Here is mine," and he read it solemnly and with emphasis: "'Yankee Doodle came to town, A-riding on a pony. He stuck a feather in his cap And called it macaroni. "Which reading is correct?" he asked of Cleary. "I'm sure I don't know," said Cleary, laughing. "How careless you are of your country's literature!
Gerard raised his eyebrows with astonishment at this monstrous but thoroughly characteristic revelation; however, this new and delicate point of friendship was never discussed; viz., whether one ought in all love to cut the tendon Achilles of one's friend. For an incident interposed. "Here cometh one in our rear a-riding on his neighbour's mule," shouted Denys. Gerard turned round.
Soon after him a huntsman came a-riding, And he beckoned to the falcon that had strayed, But the bright-eyed bird thus answered: "In gold cage you could not keep me, On your hand you could not hold me, So now I fly to blue seas far away. There a white swan I will kill, Of sweet swan-flesh have my fill." The bethrothal was taking place in the cornet's hut.
"Here, Joseph," he cried breathlessly, "am I right? Are those two of my pupils?" "Yes, sir; a-riding striddling on the elephant's neck." "Dangerous! Madness! So undignified too! What will people think? Run and tell them to get off directly and come to me."
"Saw you yonder knight, Master Wentworth," inquired one of the squires of his next neighbour, "that we marked a-riding down by the woody knoll to the left, shortly afore the fight? I marvel if he meant to fight." "He had it, if he meant it not," answered the other; "the knight, you would say, who bore three silver arrows?" "Ay, the same. What befell him?"
They all cried, "Give three cheers, away we go, The Circus Cotton-Tails, ho, ho!" The merry-go-round would not start. They all got out to see what was the matter. Then the most surprising thing happened! Doctor Cotton-Tail jumped out from under the merry-go-round and said, "A-riding, too, I'd like to go, Though I may take a nap or so." Grandpa Grumbles said cheerfully,
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