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The bare-backed riding of her early days in Galway had proved a valuable asset, and there was not a horse she could not manage. Her slim figure seemed born to the saddle, and her nerve was as yet unshaken. The man who had engaged her had been more than a little astonished at the composure with which she showed off the horses' paces, and went through various tricks.
And one dark night she listens from her window to the demand of a messenger, and softly creeps down stairs and is ready to take her place by his side, and drive him across the hills as if it were the best fun in the world, with the frightened country-boy clattering behind on his bare-backed steed.
"They made us ride the poor man round the town on a bare-backed donkey, with his face to the tail, and all the way two of us had to thrash him, crying, 'Thus shall be done to the man who robs a consul! He was ready to faint before we got him up here. God knows we don't want to lash him again!"
My father took off the hobbles, and rode him bare-backed to the camping ground, where he rewarded him with more bread and biscuit, and then hobbled him again for the night. "It was here," he said to me on one of the first days after his return, "that I first knew myself to be a broken man.
Which is maist to your business? thae bare-backed hizzies that play the harlot o' the other side o' the warld, or these these thousands o' bare-backed hizzies that play the harlot o' your ain side made out o' your ain flesh and blude? You a poet! True poetry, like true charity, my laddie, begins at hame.
There was no saddle, but as he was used to riding bare-backed he could endure it indefinitely. Then the chief did a surprising thing, binding a piece of soft deerskin over Will's eyes so tightly that not a ray of light entered. "Why do you do that, Heraka?" asked the lad. "That you may not see which way you go, nor what is by the path as you ride.
"Most of us have heard of Prince Satsuma, a mighty magnificent three-tailed Bashaw, the chief lord and owner of the city of Kagosima and the adjacent parts. He, it appears, or one of his bare-backed followers, some time ago murdered, without any rhyme or reason, an English merchant, who happened to be riding along the high road.
As a girl she had known Lady Hester Stanhope, who lived with her grandmother, Lady Chatham, at Burton Pynsent, her own father, Dr. Thomas Woodforde, being Lady Chatham's medical attendant. The future prophetess of the Lebanon was then a wild girl, scouring the countryside on bare-backed horses; she showed great kindness to Mary Woodforde, afterwards Kinglake's mother.
As Earle and Dick emerged from their tent, fresh and buoyant after a sound night's sleep, the troopers, very lightly clad, were mounting their horses, bare-backed, with the evident intention of taking the animals down to the lake; and the idea occurred to Dick and Earle simultaneously, that there was nothing in the world they so ardently desired at that moment as a dip in the lake, which, gently ruffled by the lightest and most balmy of zephyrs, lay shimmering invitingly in the sunshine some two miles away.
'T is like the clown in the circus who works himself up with a mighty pother to mount the bare-backed steed, and then hangs on to the tail. No, no, good Herr Nietzsche, we want our Saints Francis as well as our Napoleons.
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