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Updated: June 12, 2025
As I was the eldest boy I had the care of our first span of work horses. Their names were Nob and Nell. Nob was very intelligent, and even affectionate, and could learn almost anything. Nell was entirely different; balky and stubborn, though we managed to teach her a good many circus tricks; but she never seemed to like to play with us in anything like an affectionate way as Nob did.
"Then we'll plan that," declared Jack. "Notify your folks accordingly, Wally." "I shall. But you'll have to have help along, if she's as big as all that, won't you?" "I suppose so," agreed Jack. "I'm not altogether up to the mark, if it comes to tinkering with a big, balky motor." "I'd like to go as engineer," said the man at the wheel. "I've often run her, and I know her ways.
"It certainly was funny you trying to get him away, and being so still about it. I heard you whispering swear-words, and I wanted to scream! I just couldn't keep still any longer. Is he balky?" "I don't know what he is now," said Weary plaintively. "He was, at that time. He's generally what happens to be the most dev mean under the circumstances."
It is pride in our political system and our form of government balky sometimes, mechanically deficient perhaps, in many ways but enormously alive and vigorous; able through these years to keep the Republic on the right course, rising to the great occasions, accomplishing the essentials, meeting the basic challenge of our times.
Where's the Great Bear at that yo' all was goin' to lead home, Skyrider?" Then they laughed like two maniacs. Mary V gritted her teeth at them and wished aloud that she had her shotgun with her. A youth, whose sagging chaps pulled in his waistline until he looked almost as slim as a girl, ceased dragging at the bridle reins of a balky bronk and glanced across the corral.
"Mis' Sproul," he said at last, "you take muddy roads, wet grounds, balky animils, fool rubes, drunken performers, and the high price of lemons, and the circus business is some raspy on the general disposition. But since I've known your husband I've come to the conclusion that it's an angel-maker compared with goin' to sea." "You had no business tellin' him what you did," complained the wife.
"I'll do nothing of the kind!" Lorraine set her mouth stubbornly. "Well, then I'll have to lay you down," said Al, lifting her to her feet. "If you get balky, I'm liable to get rough." Lorraine drew away from him as far as she could and looked at him for a full minute. Al stared back into her eyes.
He leaped for the saddle of the nearest horse and dug his spurs home. In his fuddled condition he made a mistake. He had chosen, as a mount upon which to escape, the fence that encircled the park. "Gid ap! Gid ap!" he screamed. "Yore bronc is some balky, ain't it, Jud?" Hollister asked.
As they swept along rapidly, young, fair, well-fed, beautifully dressed, in the costly, shining car, their clouded faces might to a country eye have been visible proofs of the country dictum that "rich city folks don't seem to get no good out'n their money and their automobiles: always layin' their ears back and lookin' 'bout as cheerful as a balky horse."
The hold-up of Paul Hastings was to them not so important as the fact that Cecilia Thayer had gone over to Kimball's and actually asked Jack Kimball to take her out Woodbine way to tow home the balky Turtle. But, precisely as her friend had said, Clip was a schemer.
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