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Kirby's thought seemed to match his. "Hilder's mare is jus' about beat, an' Boyd rides light; that bay he got is holdin' up like a corn-fed stud." "They were talkin' to him when I went out on point." Drew followed his own line of thought. "And he won't listen to me "
It is right odd, isn't it? but two or three of the prettiest women here are from that State. There is Mrs. Martin, sweet as a jacqueminot. I'd introduce you if her husband were here. Ohio! Well, we get used to it. I should have known the father and mother were corn-fed. I suppose you prefer the corn-feds to the Confeds. But there's homespun and homespun. You see those under the trees yonder?
It was I who was humourless now, "I'm sick of its corn-fed bourgeois ideals ... I want to belong to the world as you do!" We trudged back to town. "What a site for a university!... the men who put those buildings up there on the Hill must have dreamed greatly ... look at the sun!... the buildings are transfigured into a fairy city!"
All advice on that point seems to rely on corn-fed saddle horses and little sleep." The brothers spent the customary hour at the corral. From the bluff bank which encircled the inclosure, the lads looked down on the contented herd, their possession and their promise; and the tie of man and his beast was accented anew in their youthful hearts. "Mr.
See 'em in action first, say I. There was a corn-fed hussy in a plush bonnet with forget-me-nots, two hundred and thirty or forty on the hoof, that exhausted my vitality all right no holds barred, an arm like first-growth hick'ry across my windpipe, and me up against a solid pillar of structural ironwork!
"We're out of debt, except your personal note for the five hundred and the one for the team. It won't do to mortgage again." "But we'll have to mortgage, with the crop short, and all those cattle!" he exclaimed. "Sell a part of them as grass cattle, and use the money to buy corn for the rest," she advised. "Grass cattle are soft and don't weigh down like corn-fed steers.
When it was all over, the big, tanned men gathered at the entrance to the calf corral and expanded in admiration of their new boss. "She's a pure for fair. She grades up any old way yuh take her to the best corn-fed article on the market," pronounced Denver, with enthusiasm. "I got to ride the boundary," sighed Missou. "I kinder hate to go right now." "Here, too," acquiesced another.
Lordee, Lordee," he gazed at them admiringly, "you sho' is genoowine corn-fed, sterlin' silver, all-woolan'-a-yard-wide, pure-leaf, Green-River Lollapaloosas. Does yo' folks know 'bout yer? Lordee! What I axin' sech a fool question fer? 'Course dey don't. Come on, I gwine to take y' all off 'n dese cars right here at dis Woodstock, an' we kin ketch de 'commodation back home."
The whites of his eyes showed plainly and he snorted again. The wind-shaken paper utterly dissipated the pony's corn-fed complacency. "Oh! Oh! Gidap!" shrieked the thin old lady. "He he's backin' us into the ditch, Pussy," cried her sister. "I I can't help it, Blossom," gasped the driver of the frightened pony.
You know, old Bill always mast-fed the hogs he put up for his own eatin', they jest fattened on hickory nuts and big white- and bur-oak acorns, and he'd smoke his meat with hickory wood smoke, and oh, that meat was jest so sweet and nutty-like! why, the meat of corn-fed hogs was nowhere in comparison."
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