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In turning the handle upside down, he saw that from one of the horse's delicately finished shoes, a nail was missing, and its hole left empty. It was a hind shoe too! "Caitch yer naig, an' pu' his tail; In his bin' heel caw a nail!" "I do believe," he said to himself, "this is the horse that was in the old villain's head every time he uttered the absurd rime!"
The man who refuses to accept a challenge is said to take a dare, and there is some implication of cowardice in the imputation. Ketch was used by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for catch. A New Hampshire magistrate in the seventeenth century spells it caitch, and probably pronounced it in that way.
He wrote that a young man ought to have a "moderate practice of running, leaping, wrestling, fencing, dancing, and playing at the caitch, or tennis, bowls, archery, pall-mall, and riding; and in foul or stormy weather, cards and backgammon, dice, chess, and billiards," but football was too rough a game for his Majesty, and "meeter for laming than making able."
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