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Updated: June 11, 2025
It was warm and damp last night, and many mosquitoes were inside our curtains didn't feel up to painting much, but took out a sketch book and our hired victoria; the horse jibbed and tied itself and the traces and the victoria into a knot and kicked up a racket generally in the hotel porch, and we got it extracted in time, then it insisted on taking the victoria along the pavement till I was glad G. was not with me a fool would have stayed in it I found I needed a shave, and left as it pranced past a barber's shop.
Waterton, a distinguished country gentleman of ancient family in Northumberland, publicly mounted and rode in top- boots a savage old crocodile, that was restive and very impertinent, but all to no purpose. The crocodile jibbed and tried to kick, but vainly. The mode of escaping from the reptile he showed to be not by running away, but by leaping on its back booted and spurred.
I drove a thirty-horse White three months last year." "Ah, the same car that we drive. Unfortunately, I cannot help my father just now, for I have met with an accident in the hunting field." I jibbed at this. Motor-men don't know much about the hunting field, as a rule, but I wasn't such a ninny that I supposed men hunted in July. "Hunting, did you say, sir?"
Of course, one has no ideas in common with these Bush people. Where the 'Charm of the Bush' comes in is more than I can see I much prefer Town on a Saturday morning to all Billabong and its bullocks. They wanted me to go out one night and fancy! help burn down dead trees; but, really, I jibbed on that. There is no billiard room.
It was late when Elma reached the station. Her pony had jibbed on the way downhill, and the train was just on the point of moving off as she hurried upon the platform. Old Matthews, the stout and chubby-cheeked station-master, seized her most unceremoniously by the left arm, and bundled her into a carriage. He had known her from a child, so he could venture upon such liberties.
But this was not the only strange thing about her course, for when she had made some few hundred yards towards the coast, she jibbed round of a sudden, with an appalling wrench at the horse; and there being, as it appeared, no hand either at the peak halyards or the throat halyards, the mainsail presently showed a great rent near the luff, while the foresail had torn free from the bolt-ropes of the stay, and was presenting a sorry spectacle as the yacht went about, and away towards France again.
That was according to HIS rule of social equality by the camp fire, he said.... And where was all Lady Bridget's vaunted socialism if she jibbed at such a simple illustration of the first principles of socialism?
The donkeys jibbed upon the brink; many "Arrahs" and curses and much cudgelling with a stick got them started; the panniers swayed horribly, and threatened to turn completely round, as the current pushed the donkeys over this side and that.
We had no carbide, and my carburetter had jibbed, so we decided to stop at Ciry for the night. At the inn we found many drinks particularly some wonderful cherry brandy and a friendly motor-cyclist who told us of a billet that an officer was probably going to leave. We went there.
It usually takes some time to catch a team of six mules and two horses turned out to graze on the veldt; it is endless, however, when they are as frightened of their drivers as ours appeared to be. At length they were collected and we made a start, and then our adventures began. First the leader, a white horse, jibbed.
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