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Their practice had lasted some two hours, and now they were once more picking their way over the rough mountain trail, headed for Bald Mountain, and discussing the happenings of the night and morning. Considerable amusement was afforded them when, on the journey, old Bobtail, as they had named the Professor's cob, stumbled and threw its rider over its head.
They asked the opinion of the others; so all in turn took sides either for Bobtail or for Falcon, some as experts, others as eyewitnesses.
It was made up of teamsters, Quartermaster's men, and other bobtail of the camp, with the officers' servants forming the dark fringe of an outer circle. Groundhog was the presiding spirit. By means best known to himself he had become possessed of a jug of Commissary whisky, and was dispensing it to his auditors in guarded drams to highten their appreciation of his wit and humor.
* At the spelling lesson the children were obliged to put down each a pin, he who held the first place got them all with the exception of the queen that is the boy who held the second place! who got two; and the prince, the third who got one. The last boy in the class was called Bobtail.
If he jumps for me, and he may, there is nothing can save my beauty but you and that gun." Preble with characteristic loquacity says, "Go ahead." Then I stopped and began slowly approaching the desperate creature we held at bay. His eyes were glaring green, his ears were back, his small bobtail kept twitching from side to side, and his growls grew harder and hissier, as I neared him.
I suppose you're trying to rub in your exalted social position! Well, let me tell you that your revered paternal ancestor, Henry T., doesn't even call it a 'Tux.! He calls it a 'bobtail jacket for a ringtail monkey, and you couldn't get him into one unless you chloroformed him!" "Now don't be horrid, George." "Well, I don't want to be horrid, but Lord! you're getting as fussy as Verona.
Tag, rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, become his natural element; actors and actresses and drunken, roaring courtiers are to be found in his society; until the man grew so involved with Saturnalian manners and companions that he was shot almost unconsciously into the grand domestic crash of 1668.
Once, twice, three times he walked past the entrance of the court before at last he entered and screwed himself away among the tag and bobtail. The court was crowded; and from the murmurs round he could tell that it was his particular case which had brought so many there. In a dazed way he watched charge after charge disposed of with lightning quickness.
And so another noble beast that was he is seen approaching, presumably to claim his share of the combing and clipping and of whatever other favours may be forthcoming. Another time when, I suppose, I was again letting him wait for an answer, he writes from Düsseldorf: "DEAR BOBTAIL, Est-ce que tu te donnes le genre de m'oublier par hazard?
"MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. Yesterday, at the British embassy, the Right Honorable John Augustus Altamont Plantagenet, Earl of Crabs, to Leonora Emilia, widow of the late Lieutenant-General Sir George Griffin, K. C. B. An elegant dejeune was given to the happy couple by his Excellency Lord Bobtail, who gave away the bride.
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