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"I will leave it all, and gladly, if you will pay some attention to my messages," was my rejoinder. "Had I not been out of town," he replied, "I would have come to see you sooner." And this honest explanation I accepted. I made known to the steward the assistant physician's behavior in balking my desire to telephone my conservator.
With one ear cocked forward, and his forefeet firmly planted, the decrepit animal dumbly made his declaration of independence, taking the blows that rained upon his back with the dogged heroism of one who has resolved to die rather than surrender. "By Jupiter, if those coons aren't fixing to build a fire under him!" exclaimed Decker. "They'd rather fool with a balking mule than eat watermelon!
There is no other way. Are you prepared? .. 'Yes. He moved away from her and lifted the balking cub, placing her in the left-hand shell, where the woman would ride. 'We must be off.
As soon as he is familiar with the harness and line, take him out and put him by the side of a gentle horse, and go through the same process that you did with the balking horse. Always use a bridle without blinds when you are breaking a horse to harness.
"That is right, Dyce; I am glad your opinion of my profession has forced you to such a sensible conclusion. Come, Bedney, no balking now." Perplexed by Dyce's tactics, Bedney stood irresolute, with his half-filled pipe slipping from his fingers; and he stared at his wife for a few seconds, hoping that some cue would be furnished. "Bedney, there's no use in being cantankerous.
But there was little doubt of the Legislature balking. Vanderbilt well knew the means to insure its passage. In those years, when the people were taught to look upon competition as indispensable, there was deep popular opposition to the consolidating of competing interests. This, it was feared, would inflict monopoly.
And the same feeling, the second sight the presentiment the terrible balking of his mind that had always seen so clearly, ever into the future, held him as in a vise all the morning and moved him in a strange mysterious way to go to the church and see the woman he had loved all his life, the being whose very look uplifted him, and whose smile could make him a hero or a martyr, married to the man who came home to take her, and half of his all.
Once we came to a bend in the river where the current was so strong that we had dipped our paddles full five minutes against the mill race without gaining an inch. The canoe squirmed like a hunter balking a hedge, and Jean's blade splintered off to the handle. But M. de Radisson braced back to lighten the bow; the prow rose, a sweep of the paddles, and on we sped!
But Phil was on the point of balking when a clown came out with a handful of hoops covered with paper. "You want me to jump through those things?" he questioned, during a brief intermission. "Sure." "Does the other man do that?" "He does." "Then I can do it, I guess." "I reckon you can do anything on a horse that you happen to feel like," said the showman.
It is this female devotion, squatting faithfully at the prison gate, always eagerly balking the cunning of the examiner, and incorruptibly keeping the darkest secrets which make so many trials impenetrable mysteries. In this, again, lies the strength as well as the weakness of the accused.
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