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And the time had come at Paris when you could not get trust for a pound of horse-flesh, or a daily supply of fuel. Of course he might have claimed his half-pay of thirty sous as a National Guard.
Wherever the trotting horse goes, he carries in his train brisk omnibuses, lively bakers' carts, and therefore hot rolls, the jolly butcher's wagon, the cheerful gig, the wholesome afternoon drive with wife and child, all the forms of moral excellence, except truth, which does not agree with any kind of horse-flesh.
After being hospitably entertained and protected by the Mono and Paute tribes, they stole a number of stolen horses from their entertainers and made their way by a long, obscure route by the head of the north fork of the San Joaquin, reached their Yosemite home once more, but early one morning, after a feast of horse-flesh, a band of Monos surprised them in their huts, killing Tenaya and nearly all his tribe.
In either case ladies and horse-flesh are better out of the way." "But I'm not afraid," cried the girl, her teeth chattering with excitement. "At least, I don't think I am much. Anyhow, I'll be lots more scared down here in this hole alone." "You won't be alone; you've got two good horses to take care of. Thank the Lord, Hard is out of it that's three horses we can save."
"You will deliver this to General Arnold in person, Major; do not spare horse-flesh. You were in the action to-day?" "With Maxwell's Brigade." "That was a hard fight along the stone wall; you came out unhurt?" "A slight bayonet wound, sir; nothing to incapacitate me from duty." "Very well; take ten dragoons as escort. Hamilton will write you an order.
But his pride would not let him recommence the conversation otherwise than by continuing the quarrel. Dunstan was waiting for this, and took his ale in shorter draughts than usual. "It's just like you," Godfrey burst out, in a bitter tone, "to talk about my selling Wildfire in that cool way the last thing I've got to call my own, and the best bit of horse-flesh I ever had in my life.
"Don't you see?" answered shifty Sigurd; "he makes the sign of Thor's hammer before drinking!" which quenched the matter for the time. Horse-flesh, horse-broth, and the horse ingredient generally, Hakon all but inexorably declined.
Game being scarce, he was obliged to rely, for the most part, on horse-flesh for subsistence, and the Indians discovering his necessities, adopted a policy usual in civilized trade, and raised the price of horses to an exorbitant rate, knowing that he and his men must eat or die.
These are a few of the comparatively innocent amusements of the fast fellows; others there are of graver character, which we need not refer to, especially as the fast school is fast wearing itself out, and many of the fast fellows already begin to "put on the drag," and go at a more reasonable pace. Their ignorance, with the single exception of horse-flesh, is appalling.
It is his own fare, and Broglio's, to serve as example. At Broglio's quarter, there is a kind of ordinary of horse-flesh: Officers come in, silent speed looking through their eyes; cut a morsel of the boiled provender, break a bad biscuit, pour one glass of indifferent wine; and eat, hardly sitting the while, in such haste to be at the ramparts again.
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