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The believing multitude consists of women of both sexes, feeble minded inquirers, poetical optimists, people who always get cheated in buying horses, philanthropists who insist on hurrying up the millennium, and others of this class, with here and there a clergyman, less frequently a lawyer, very rarely a physician, and almost never a horse-jockey or a member of the detective police.
Percie, the son and heir, has more of the sot than of the gamekeeper, bully, horse-jockey, or fool My precious Thornie is more of the bully than the sot, gamekeeper, jockey, or fool John, who sleeps whole weeks amongst the hills, has most of the gamekeeper The jockey is powerful with Dickon, who rides two hundred miles by day and night to be bought and sold at a horse-race And the fool predominates so much over Wilfred's other qualities, that he may be termed a fool positive."
The believing multitude consists of women of both sexes, feeble-minded inquirers, poetical optimists, people who always get cheated in buying horses, philanthropists who insist on hurrying up the millennium, and others of this class, with here and there a clergyman, less frequently a lawyer, very rarely a physician, and almost never a horse-jockey or a member of the detective police.
The wagon rattled off at an unusual speed; there was no need for a whip, and the professor congratulated himself upon the fine condition of his steed. "Hasn't shown such speed for years," muttered he, admiringly. "If I'd only been a horse-jockey, now, I could have made a fortune out of her! Points all superb only wants a little training."
Dodge, there, will tell you it is making up its mind which way it ought to blow, to be popular; so, as we have nothing better to do, Mr. Effingham, I will tell you the story about my neighbour, the horse-jockey. Hauling yards when there is no wind, is like playing on a Jew's-Harp, at a concert of trombones." Mr.
At a fair or market, you could not for a moment have doubted that he was a horse-jockey, intimate with all the tricks of his trade; yet, had you met him on a moor, you would not have apprehended any violence from him.
"Don't you, faith. I wondher what do you call imposin' Barney Bryan, the horse-jockey, on his lordship, for Tom Norton, the gentleman? However, no matther that's your own affair; and so long as you let the good ould lord alone among you keep your secret I'm not goin' to interfere wid you. None of your travellers' tricks upon him, though."
He had no objection, either, to holding the reins in a wagon behind another kind of horse, a slouching, listless beast, with a strong slant to his shoulder and a notable depth to his quarter and an emphatic angle at the hock, who commonly walked or lounged along in a lazy trot of five or six miles an hour; but, if a lively colt happened to come rattling up alongside, or a brandy-faced old horse-jockey took the road to show off a fast nag, and threw his dust into the Major's face, would pick his legs up all at once, and straighten his body out, and swing off into a three-minute gait, in a way that "Old Blue" himself need not have been ashamed of.
"He is a miserable, cheap horse-jockey, and I shall treat him with the contempt he deserves," he blustered. "If it hadn't been for my dog his old boneyard could never have gone twice around the track, anyway." The crowds on the grand stand were bellowing: "Trot hosses! Shut up! Trot hosses!"
He, not a politician, nor a horse-jockey, nor a footpad, but a man who talks of honor and integrity, a man of standing and influence, whose virtue is not tempted by hunger, whose life has been such that he may be supposed intelligently to comprehend the interests which are at stake, and the measures which should be taken to secure them, is he successful because he obtains in a few months, by the perquisites not illegal, but strained to the extreme verge of legal of an office, not illegal, but accidental, not in the line of promotion, a sum of money which the greatest merit and the highest office in the land cannot claim for years?
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