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Updated: June 13, 2025
As we came up to the fold, two little boys hailed us from the inside two little wretches with blue noses and white cheeks, scarecrows of rags and patches, their feet peeping through bursten shoes twice too big for them, who seemed to have shared between them a ragged pair of worsted gloves, and cowered among the sheep, under the shelter of a hurdle, crying and inarticulate with cold.
You wouldn't call a man a quitter if he stayed out of a hurdle race because he'd broken a leg, would you?" "Well," said Anna, "I'm willing to live in such a cheap apartment that the landlord calls it a flat. And you can't get any servants these days; there aren't any. And who cares about entertaining? And for outside pleasures, why couldn't we go to the Orpheum?"
And Richard Calmady, meanwhile, lay still and very fairly peaceful upon the narrow camp-bed in the middle of the room. He had lain there, save during one hour, the memory of which haunted Katherine with hideous and sickening persistence, ever since Tom Chifney, the head-lad from the stables, and a couple of grooms had carried him in, on a hurdle, from the steeple-chase course four days ago.
He seemed a young man to be in this desolate place of his own free will, for his black beard and hair were hardly grizzled with the passing years yet. There was a low wall round the gathering of huts, the gate being closed with a wattled hurdle, lest the pigs should wander. Here the hermit stopped, and before he opened the gate lifted his voice and cried loudly in the tongue which I did not know.
Between the two, an ordinary wooden hurdle had been put up, and this hurdle was opened for us by a little blue-bloused urchin in a pair of huge sabots, who, thinking we belonged to the bridal party, pointed up the dusky avenue, and said, with a grin: "Tout droit, M'sieur ils sont passés par l
He wiped his forehead with his great, broad handkerchief, and squared himself as if about to try a high hurdle or plunge away in a race. "Joseph Newbolt, take the witness-chair," said he.
"Don't see as we can get a door off without tools, sir," said Smiler. "What d'yer say to a huddle?" "The very thing. We can lift this mattress right on to it, and it will be lighter and easier to carry." The light hurdle was soon brought, and the rough bed lifted carefully on.
His unburied corpse, reduced to the condition of a mummy, was brought out of its lurking-place, thrust into a coffin, dragged on a hurdle to the Golgotha outside the Hague, on the road to Ryswyk, and there hung on a gibbet in company of the bodies of other malefactors swinging there in chains.
Among special events in this section are the following: trot under saddle, one-mile track, one-mile military officer's race, one-mile mounted police race, gaited saddle race of one mile, steeple chase, hurdle race, polo pony dash, relay race of one mile, cowboy's relay race of same length, cowgirl's relay race, six furlongs, saddle tandem.
Stiffly and painfully he descends from the saddle, hears a feeble voice call his name and turning, beholds a hurdle set in the shade of a tree, and upon the hurdle the long, limp form of Captain Slingsby, with three or four strangers kneeling beside him. "Ah, Beverley!" said he faintly. "Glad you beat Carnaby, he crowded me a bit at the wall, y' know.
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