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The Great Goer galloped all the way there. His mouth was as hard as nails, and I could not check him; still, the ride was no worse than being tossed in a blanket for half an hour. On the very spot, I heard the story of the tragic Indian fight by one who claimed to have been an eye-witness.
I might as well have been a monkey or a straw woman bobbing up and down on his back. Pound, pound, thump, thump, gaily sped on the Great Goer. There were dim shouts far behind me for a while, then no more. The roadside whipped by, two long streaks of green. We whizzed across the railroad track in front of the day express, accompanied by the engine's frantic shriek of "down brakes."
"That dad of yours," Joe told me, "is a mighty interesting old boy. He has had a big life with a big idea." "Has he?" said I. "Then he's lost it." "He hasn't! That's just the trouble. He thinks he's a comer when he's a goer he can't see his idea is out of date. It's a pity," he added sadly.
"All right, that will do," I answered, and the jockey pulled up his steed. "Are the other camels better or worse than that?" I asked. "Much worse," replied El Baggar; "the others are rather rough, but this is an easy goer, and will suit the lady well."
Grant has got to put the lastly to his sermon, yet. Even all the horses would come by the-bye, Judge, I must sell the blacks for you immediately; they interfere, and the nigh one is a bad goer in double harness. I can get rid of them to Sell what thou wilt, Dickon, interrupted the cheerful voice of the Judge, so that thou leavest me my daughter and my lands.
'A butcher, repeated Mr. Roker, giving the nib of his pen a tap on the desk to cure it of a disinclination to mark. 'What a thorough-paced goer he used to be sure-ly! You remember Tom Martin, Neddy? said Roker, appealing to another man in the lodge, who was paring the mud off his shoes with a five-and-twenty-bladed pocket-knife.
And I don't remember nothin' except that we got to the Circle K Bar after a million years, 'most, and when we got there the piebald flops on the ground near dead. But I made the change and started off agin, and that next hoss was even better than the piebald a sure goer! When he started I could tell by his gait what he was, and I looked up at the sky " He stopped, embarrassed.
Is it him that can't speak English, or me that can't onderstand? for one on us is a fool, that's sartain. I'll try him agin. "So I sais to him, 'He looks, sais I, 'as if he'd trot a considerable good stick, that horse, sais I, 'I guess he is a goer. "Y' mae, ye un trotter da, sais he.
Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him. When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance. "By the Broken Lock that freed me," said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, "thou art no slow goer!"
Like with most strangers, in both of these brief encounters with the linen officiator and the toilet goer he had respectively greeted and smiled at each of these individuals at the moments of seeing them with a sawadee khrap and a gracious nod of the head in place of the wai.
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