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He looked over the book I was reading or rummaged my workbox, trying on my thimble with an air of tenderness, and peeping into my needlebook. He told Alice that he thought I was a whole team and a horse to let, but he felt rather balky when he came near me, I had such a smartish eye. "What am I to do, marm?" asked Jesse one morning when Charles was away.
For the first mile or two they kept the road, and then they whirled suddenly round to the left, and stood still. "Oh!" cried Edith Chase, "we shall all be killed!" However, after some persuasion, the blacks started on again as suddenly as they had stopped, for wonderful are the ways of balky horses.
"You everlasting " I begun, but I didn't get any further. There was a rattling noise behind me, and I turned, to see Lonesome Huckleberries himself, setting on the seat of his old truck wagon and glaring over the hammer head of that balky mare of his straight at brother Todd and the dead decoys.
Gordon thought joyfully that Aaron had left the balky mare, and had returned, but it was not so. He had heard nothing except the pulsations of the blood in his own overwrought brain. He wondered if he were really going mad, although all the time his mind was steadily at work upon the awful problem which had been forced upon it.
"Seems to me you're inclined to be a little inquisitive, Dab," said Ford, as his friend peered sharply into and around one craft after another; but just then Dabney sang out, "Hullo, Jersey, what are you doing with two grapnels? Is that boat of yours balky?" "Mind yer eye, youngster. They're both mine, I reckon." "You might sell me one cheap," continued Dab, "considering how you got 'em.
Perhaps it was a broken rail, or maybe a great boulder had toppled down the mountainside and lay upon the track; but the important thing was that suddenly, without a second's warning, the engine bucked like a balky broncho, and after one or two mad plunges along the roadbed, toppled over the bank and rolled into the gulley below.
"Let me do it, Massa Tom. Let me do it," suggested the colored man hurrying to the balky beast.
He had seen, as he expressed it in his own terse, quaint language, that "the armies of the East and the West had been acting independently and without concert, like a balky team, no two of them ever pulling together." Under his direction the forces of the Union, however distant from each other, were brought into harmonious co-operation and with the happiest results.
You know if it was boll-weevils, or cattle tick, or black rust, all I'd have to do would be to drop a postcard to Washington and in a month or so I'd have all kinds of pamphlets, with colored plates and diagrams, tellin' me just what to do. But balky aunts on your wife's side seem to have been overlooked. Somebody ought to write a book on the subject.
At your first advance he will arch his neck, paw his hoof, bend into the bit, stiffen the traces and dash on. We have the same prescription for balky horses and men: for a little while let them alone. In boyhood days we were impressed with the fertility of a certain author whose name so often appeared in the spelling books and readers, styled Anon.
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