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He wondered if he might get free from it altogether, and, dropping it to the ground, continue his ride bare-backed. Then he remembered that the two mail bags were buckled to the saddle, and that it was his duty to safeguard them with his life. He tried to ease the thing forward, and at the same time to raise it and save it from shifting perilously to the pony's right side.
"Certainly, sir," he answered, "as long as the young lady likes; there's no manner of hurry, and perhaps little miss would like to have another canter. I never see'd no one sit so bird-like on a horse never, in the whole of my born days." "Do you hear that, Nell?" said her father. "Would you like another canter? I didn't know you could ride bare-backed."
Another apparition was a spear-man bestriding a bare-backed colt; after reconnoitering us for some time, he yielded to the temptations of curiosity. It afterwards struck us that, mounted on our mules, preceded and followed by the Shaykhs riding their dromedaries, we must have looked mighty like a party of prisoners being marched inland.
It's not much meat a family gets that's reared on nine shillings a week." After a series of calculations for oatmeal-porridge, onion-potage, and other modest dainties, during which Mrs. Bundle constantly fell back on the "bits of things in the garden," I said decidedly "They can't have any clothes, so it's no good thinking about it." "Children can't be let go bare-backed," said Mrs.
He was wide awake and alert, bare-footed, bareheaded, and without a coat. He leaped nimbly onto his bare-backed beast, and Frances got into her saddle as fast as her numb limbs would lift her. As she road away after the recklessly riding youth, she felt the hope that she had warmed in her bosom all night paling to a shadow.
She groomed him, fed him, took him to be shod, and scampered over the wide-strewn Downs on him, sometimes bare-backed, sometimes on a numnah, hopping on and off him light as a bird and active as a kitten. Mrs. Woodburn let the child go largely her own way.
"This is my horse," she said, balancing herself, with outstretched arms, on the stone, and making it revolve in a queer, jerky fashion by pressing her feet on it as though it were a treadmill, "and it is bare-backed!" The iron handle came down with a thud, and Ellen lurched to keep from falling; the boys unwisely broke into cheers.
Then nothing would serve the children but that Colonel Fitzdenys must ride Billy again; so a snaffle was put into his mouth and the Colonel mounted him bare-backed, and took him for a little turn in the park and leaped him over the bar, to their great delight. Then all three went back to the garden again, and the children began plying him with questions.
The red sun, lifting above the eastern hills, found long irregular lines of horses straggling across dewy fields to water at the rushing streams of the Manawatu River. On one bare-backed horse of every four sat a trooper, clad sketchily in shirt and breeches tugged on hastily, as a sergeant had called the roll.
"Coggan, you can ride bare-backed? there's no time to look for saddles." "Like a hero!" said Jan. "Maryann, you go to hed." Gabriel shouted to her from the top of the hedge.
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