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Why should you ape your betters? Horses ain't got any ankles: they're only pasterns. And so long as you don't lift your feet better, but fall asleep between every step, you'll run a good chance of laming all your ankles as you call them, one after another. It's not your lively horse that comes to grief in that way. I tell you I believe it wasn't much, and if it was, it was your own fault. There!
"You are not going till I have your promise to hold your tongue!" he said between his teeth. Stafford flung the other's detaining hand from him. Freed from his laming diseased conscience, and roused to activity, he acted like a man of lightning determination and iron will. "That you will never have, and you are a scoundrel to ask for it. As you like there are other exits than the door."
The danger of the inverse procedure, judging of self by what one observes in others, if it is carried on with much impartiality and keenness of discernment, is that it has a laming effect, enfeebling the energies of indignation and scorn, which are the proper scourges of wrong-doing and meanness, and which should continually feed the wholesome restraining power of public opinion.
Raymond, hastily "you've been laming him have you? That accounts for it. I see, I see." "It wasn't my fault, and he's all right now. I don't know how it happened, but " "He did it on purpose," said Diamond. "He put his foot on a stone just to twist his ankle." "How do you know that, Diamond?" said his father, turning to him. "I never said so, for I could not think how it came."
This is a form of laming or crippling of certain muscles in childhood known as infantile paralysis. It is not a common disease, though during the last two years there has been an epidemic of it in the United States, especially in New York and Massachusetts.
Laming presented a horse-pistol and said he would blow his brains out if he uttered a word, and the mate slipped a pair of handcuffs on his wrists. He was then bundled out at the back door and put into a bullet-proof building at the rear. The other three seamen were then called in one after the other, garrotted, handcuffed, and imprisoned in the same way.
When he reached his own door, he darted in and closed it behind, as if to shut out the whole world through which he had passed with that burden of contempt upon his degraded shoulders. He was more ashamed of his failure than he had been sorry for laming Truffey. But the shame would pass; the sorrow would endure.
He could no longer read or make models down in the pit, but he got better wages, shorter hours of work, and his health improved with the exercise. Being always wide-awake, he escaped the accidents from which so many of his companions suffered, which they called "laming."
He spent three days at the job laming, wearisome days, after so long an absence from heavy toil. "Wal, I suppose y& want money," Brooke snapped, as the boy came to the door. "How much?" "One dollar and a half." "Too much, too much; I won't pay it." "That was the sum agreed upon." "Don't care, ye hain't earned no dollar 'n a half.
Nor is he sufficiently descriptive of the hinder legs of the hound; for there is a length of thigh discernible in first-rate hounds which, like the well-let-down hock of the horse, gives them much superiority of speed, and is also a great security against their laming themselves in leaping fences, which they are more apt to do when they become blown and consequently weak.
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