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Updated: October 27, 2025
For our part, we should have elected to die first but I must not anticipate. Gradually and tentatively just as a man who saw virtue in cannibalism would hem and haw before he advocated its practice the subject of horseflesh was furtively discussed in whispers, which ultimately developed into audible commentaries in regard to its odour, taste, and general nutritiousness.
In this way, the goods he had brought to trade for beaver skins, were likely to be bartered for horseflesh, and all the proceeds devoured upon the spot. He had despatched trappers in various directions, but the country around did not offer more beaver than his own station.
The town was now in a miserable condition: the soldiers searched and rifled the houses of the inhabitants for victuals; they had lived on horseflesh several weeks, and most of that also was as lean as carrion, which not being well salted bred wens; and this want of diet made the soldiers sickly, and many died of fluxes, yet they boldly rejected all offers of surrender, unless with safety to their offices.
So early as the eighth of June horseflesh was almost the only meat which could be purchased; and of horseflesh the supply was scanty. It was necessary to make up the deficiency with tallow; and even tallow was doled out with a parsimonious hand. On the fifteenth of June a gleam of hope appeared. The sentinels on the top of the Cathedral saw sails nine miles off in the bay of Lough Foyle.
Horseflesh is cheap enough here, but it isn't always of the choicest quality; however, I can furnish you with what you'll want in that way. All your cousins ride, of course, by a sort of colonial instinct. An Australian and his horse almost grow together like a centaur." "And do you ride much, Cousin Jane?" asked Hubert. "Oh, never mind the `cousin; you must drop it at once," said Mr Oliphant.
It had just gone two bells in the first watch, when I saw a figure creeping cautiously upon the forecastle to where I was sitting. "Hush!" he whispered; and I knew by the voice it was Silas Flint. "You've friends who'll help you when the time comes. I've been watching an opportunity to bring you something more fit to eat than the horseflesh and beans I hear you've had. Eat it while you can."
I say that is false, for recently I, in company with another correspondent, left General Rundle's camp without an escort. We made our way in the saddle, taking our two Cape carts with us, to Winburg railway station; leaving our horseflesh there, we took train for East London.
We may catch him if that fellow stays to the road, though ordinarily my pony would run away from you, Dobbin." Jack didn't care much what he called this horse. But he really liked the animal, as he did all horseflesh, and the beast responded readily to him. On they swept down the mountain trail.
He had always clung to the illusion that Germans were fat, absurd men, who smoked china pipes, and were addicted to knowledge and horseflesh and sauerkraut and indigestible things generally. His bird's-eye view was quite transitory.
The fact is that Jeypore's ruler takes little interest in horseflesh and carriagemakers' creations. His preference is for elephants animals befitting a dynasty descended from the sun and moon. "Will the sahibs visit the elephant stable!" The sahibs communicate their desire to do so. Mahouts with pikestaffs lead the way, and a myriad of hangers-on swarm in the train of the visitors.
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