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We do not take it in the solid form yet, or at least not consciously, but Colonel Ward has set up a factory, with Lieutenant McNalty as managing director, for the conversion of horseflesh into extract of meat under the inviting name of Chevril. This is intended for use in hospitals, where nourishment in that form is sorely needed, since Bovril and Liebig are not to be had.
'Tis the early riser from the inn perhaps. Faith, he is a keen judge of horseflesh." "And he has a firm seat," I remarked, glancing round. "He will overtake us in a few minutes. Shall we quicken our pace?" "No, monsieur. If he is a friend there is no need; should he be an enemy 'twill but arouse suspicion." "Good-day, messieurs," cried a pleasant voice, "I trust we are well met.
"All right, grenadier, just go and overhaul those fellows sleeping there; take their shawls, sheets, anything " "I say! the rascal is dead," cried the grenadier, as he plundered the first man who came to hand. "Why, they are all dead! how queer!" "All of them?" "Yes, every one. It looks as though the horseflesh a la neige was indigestible." Philip shuddered at the words.
Bread, malt-cake, horseflesh, had entirely disappeared; dogs, cats, rats, and other vermin, were esteemed luxuries: A small number of cows, kept as long as possible, for their milk, still remained; but a few were killed from day to day; and distributed in minute proportions, hardly sufficient to support life among the famishing population.
Shades of Flora Temple and "2.40 on the plank road!" That was the cry when first I took to horses that is, to owning them. At a much earlier age I was stealing a ride on every thing within reach that had four legs and could go. One takes to horseflesh by inheritance. Rarus now goes in 2.13-1/4, and Ten Broeck beats Lexington's best time many seconds. I saw him do it.
The mentioning of the post was startling, and I listened to hear what further he had to say. And he continued, "Yes, you fellers can say what yer dern please about yer broncos, but that little horse can corral any dern piece of horseflesh yer can show up. A lady rides him, and I guess I'd put her up with the horse.
Walk two miles in such heat for nothing! as walk we would he compelled to do, horseflesh being too precious in such a drought to fritter it away in idle jaunts. Surprising to say, however, Harold, who never walked anywhere when he could get any sort of a horse, uttered a wish to go. Accordingly, when the midday dinner was over, he, Stanley, and I set out.
It was the last afternoon of the fair, and the great race was to come off at three o'clock. There is nothing so typical as a fair in the Tennessee Valley. It is the one time in the year when everybody meets everybody else. Besides being the harvest time of crops, of friendships, of happy interchange of thought and feeling, it is also the harvest time of perfected horseflesh.
And from that followed a very interesting and curious result. These tram-lines very naturally had exactly the width of an ordinary cart, a width prescribed by the strength of one horse. Few people saw in the locomotive anything but a cheap substitute for horseflesh, or found anything incongruous in letting the dimensions of a horse determine the dimensions of an engine.
"Ask them to include me, then." "What do you need of events, you regimental broncho-buster?" "One gets sick of even the best horseflesh in time," he answered nonchalantly. "Sorry, for you are doomed to more of it." "Another herd of bronchos?" Weldon's voice showed that the idea displeased him. "No; but a two-hundred-mile trek across country." "Good.
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