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Updated: June 3, 2025
Until his arrival Beverly had ridden Jewel, her fourteen-hand pony, and been quite content, but Jewel's luster was dimmed by Apache's brilliant "shines," as old Uncle Abel called his cavortings when feeling exceptionally fit from his unaccustomed diet of oats and feed.
"The idea of a fourteen-hand mule with your training disgracing the battery before this gentleman!" "Gently, gently!" said the troop-horse. "Remember they are always like this to begin with. Nearly all our horses for the English cavalry are brought to India from Australia, and are broken in by the troopers themselves. "True enough," said Billy. "Stop shaking, youngster.
'Took aboard what? I cried. 'One fourteen-hand dapple-grey rocking-horse, with pure green rockers and detachable tail, pair gashly glass eyes, complete set 'orrible grinnin' teeth, and two bloody-red nostrils which, protruding from the brown papers, produced the tout ensemble of a Ju-ju sacrifice in the Benin campaign. Do I make myself comprehensible? 'Perfectly. Did you say anything? I asked.
Mounted on his little fourteen-hand Waler, in pith solar topee, grey Norfolk jacket, light cords, and brown blucher boots, and grasping in his hand his deadly seventy-inch spear, he goes forth to slay the wild boar, with all the feelings of romance and knightliness which some people think vanished from the world when Excalibur sank in the Lake of Lyonnesse.
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