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Updated: May 17, 2025
There had been an order. Who had issued it, or why, was not for us to know. Going away from there, all downcast and disappointed, we met a French cavalryman. He limped along in his high dragoon boots, walking with the wide-legged gait of one who had bestraddled leather for many hours and was sore from it. His horse, which he led by the bridle, stumbled with weariness.
The sailor's chest, for which its owner now felt increased affection, was the first thing secured; and next the cask upon which Snowball had bestraddled himself to get a better view. Both were near, and easily reached by a little rowing.
Pirka replied that she had bestraddled a broomstick, flown out of the window, and left this wench behind in her stead. Annie believed Pirka, and bawled to Michal to take herself off and feed the swine. So little did she recognize Michal.
But experience is the only real teacher. One afternoon I bestraddled a crazy, stilt-legged Jamaican horse to go out into the bush beyond the Panama line to fetch and deliver a citizen of that sovereign republic who was wanted on the Zone for horse-stealing. I found it in charge of a negro policeman who knew nothing, and had forgotten that.
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