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Updated: June 10, 2025
The percentage of Australians who can ride at all is less than that in England; and very few even of the good horsemen are comfortable for some time on an ordinary English trotting-horse. Their own horses have only two gaits: the lope and the gallop. Of course the real boundary-rider or cattleman is without equal in his own way.
I have indeed stiffened myself to ride a horse, a mightier feat than driving him because of the tallness of the monster and his uneasy movement, as though his legs were not well socketed and might fall out on a change of gaits. I have ridden on a camel in a side-show, but have found my only comfort in his hump. I have stroked the elephant.
He cared more about getting on in the world than he did about his wife." Jethro looked away contemplatively. "Wa-wahn't the woman to blame any?" he said. "Read the book, and you'll see," retorted Cynthia, flicking her horse, which started at all gaits down the road. Jethro stood in his tracks, staring, but this time he did not see her face above the hood of the gig.
When I was brought from the solitude of my mother's dwelling into the tumult of the Gaits' Class at the High School when I was mocked for my English accent salted with snow as a Southern rolled in the gutter for a Saxon pock-pudding, who, with stout arguments and stouter blows, stood forth my defender? why, Alan Fairford.
For the rest, Imogen's figure was that of the typical well-groomed, well-trained, American girl, long-limbed, slender, rounded; in her carriage a girlish air of consciousness; the poise of her broad shoulders and slender hips expressing at once hygienic and fashionable ideals that reproved slack gaits and outlines.
Each time Bartley raised in the stirrups, Dobe took it for a signal to lope. Finally Bartley caught the knack of leaning forward and riding a trot with a straight leg, and to his surprise he found it was a mighty satisfactory method and much easier than posting. The mesa trail was wide in reality a cross-country road, so Bartley had opportunity to try Dobe's different gaits.
The more there were of the Germans the fewer of them there would be to come back when the Allies, over the French border, fell on them. This we conceived to be the mental attitude of the villagers and the peasants; but now they were different. The difference showed in all their outward aspects in their gaits; in their drooped shoulders and half-averted faces; and, most of all, in their eyes.
On our way up we met the crowd returning men and women dressed in all sorts of queer costumes, and exhibiting all degrees of cold and wretchedness in their gaits and countenances. A dozen still remained on the ground when we reached there, huddled together about the scaffold with their backs to the bitter wind.
The wheelings, the facings and all the manoeuvres at the different gaits were executed with precision and dash. All the movements in troop and squadron were carried out to perfection. To the instructor, it was plain that the most perfect esprit de corps existed.
"By my own saint, this town of Christ's Kirk has a change upon it!" he continued. "Last time I was here, it was as merry as King James when he sang of it. The young and the old hailed me as the prince of good fellows, and the wenches and wives ha! ha! "'To dans thir damysells them dight, Thir lasses light of laits; They were sae skych when I them nicht, They squeild like ony gaits."
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