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Guy taking the lead; well over the first two fences, fair hunting ones; the third is a teaser an ugly black bulfinch, with a ditch on the landing side, and a drop into a plowed field. The chestnut's devil is thoroughly roused by this time.
Their coats glanced in the sunshine the white's like statuary marble; the chestnut's like high polished copper in short the whole turn-out was perfect.
Chestnut's daughter is on exhibition after some years of careful preparation by her mother for just this event and will be gladly presented to the man offering to take her off her mother's weary hands. Said mother will be fearfully disappointed, if, after all this trouble and expense, no man should offer.
"He drew it a bit fine that time," growled Ned, still in opposition; "it was the closest sort of a shave." "Hurrah, Lauzanne!" Again there was more hurrying of feet as the Chestnut's backers who had waited in the stand for the Judge's decision, hurried down to the gold mart.
A man was there who saddled it for him, and a rough farm-boy stood by and saw how the gentleman, while he waited, stroked the next one a lady's horse, a chestnut and how presently he turned his face away and laid his cheek for a moment against the chestnut's neck. The boy thought it was a rum go, and stood staring vacantly while Hardwicke galloped off on his terrible errand.
Like the Trainer, her father had but a very poor opinion of the Chestnut's powers in any other hands but in that of the girl's. "Who'll ride him?" he asked, petulantly. "It seems you can't trust any of the boys now-a-days. If they're not pin-headed, they're crooked as a corkscrew.
Exquisite picture of strength and beauty superbly modelled: the horses' glossy coats glinting all a polished chestnut's hues; the perfect artistry and symmetry of slender limbs, and glorious, arching necks, and noble heads, and velvet muzzles; the dazzling bits and chains and buckles; the glinting bridles, reins and saddles; Lord Tybar's exquisitely poised figure, so perfectly maintaining and carrying up the symmetry of his horse as to suggest the horse would be disfigured, truncated, were he to dismount; his taking swagger, his gay, fine face; and she....
"They've had four breaks, and the mare's been left each time. The Chestnut's the worst actor I ever saw at the post. But I'm thinking he'll leave the race right there, the way he's cutting up." "My God!" he exclaimed in the next breath. He had startled the girl with the fierce emphasis he threw into the words; she sprang to her feet in excitement.
The chestnut's just broken his leg; can't think how he got here. This'll save me the trouble of shooting him." Then dropping back to that chuckling drawl, and re-assuming the ogle, he added: "The flats get greener every year about the Elsey," and with a good-humoured laugh Mac asked if "any other gentleman felt on for a swop."
"Oh, who can tell what fun it was To see the prickly shower: To feel what a whack on head or back Was within a chestnut's power! "To run beneath the shaking tree, And then to scamper away; And with laughing shout to dance about The grass where the chestnuts lay.
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