half-docile

Updated: June 26, 2025

What was the use of your remarking that the first backing of a colt is nothing that, in this case, it is the second step that costs? The four fellows knew as well as you did everyone except the tenderfoot novelist knows that in nearly every instance, a freshly backed colt is like a fish out of water; stupid, puzzled, half-sulky, half-docile.

Joseph Furphy - Such Is Life