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"Did you cut their bridles for them, Eustace?" he asked, as they came up to the others. "Ay, and their stirrup leathers, too, Pierre." "Good, indeed!" Philip exclaimed. "Without bridles or stirrup leathers, they can scarce make a start; and it will take them some minutes to patch them up. We will ride hard for a bit.
Punish him whenever you see fit. Take any method in doing it you like, so long as you don't forget you're a gentleman; brutality I won't stand." I wished I could see the chap's face; but I couldn't; just his feet. He wore low patent leathers. "If at the end of one month," dad went on, "you have managed to get the upper hand, we'll continue the arrangement.
"Pretty badly to Kathleen Lawn, whom you cornered so that she couldn't escape until her mother made her go without any tea." "Was that the reason that old lady looked at me so queerly?" "Probably. I did, too, but you were taking chances, not hints. . . . She is attractive, isn't she?" "Very fetching," he said, leaning down to examine his stirrup leathers which he had already lengthened twice.
"You know you are nothing but a small boy, Jim," Julia said one day, "just a sweet, happy kid! You were a spoiled and pitied little boy, with your big eyes and your velvet suits and your patent leathers; you loved every one every one loved you; you had your allowance, you were born to be a surgeon, and chance made your guardian a doctor " "I fell down on my exams," Jim submitted meekly.
Besides, they were too beautiful the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years.
Cloth is a very durable material, and will outlast some of the leathers, but any wetting destroys its beauty, and all colors but the darkest soon become soiled and repulsive, if in constant use. In most libraries, I hold that every cloth-bound book which is read, must sooner or later come to have a stout leather jacket.
Don't you know that surprises of this sort are apt to kill delicate people?" Charlie smiled by way of reply. "No, sir," continued the old gentleman firmly, "I won't let you take her by surprise. While I go round to the Leathers my good friend Captain Stride will go in advance of you to Mrs Brooke's and break the news to her. He is accustomed to deal with ladies."
We balk at the effort, and ask, like the audience at the movies, that eye should take the easier way. And hence the American reader still faintly suggests the Fiji Islander, who wears a silk hat and patent leathers on a tattooed naked body. For all we can tell, that may be the direction of Progress.
"You know this horse as well as I do, and you know there isn't an out about him. You want to buy him because you always have. Now make me an offer." "Well," groaned the landlord, "what'll you take for the whole rig, just as it stands, colt, cutter, leathers, and robe?" "Two hundred dollars," promptly replied Bartley. "I'll give ye seventy-five," returned the landlord with equal promptness.
The white jockey knew now that he was not dealing with a fool. The red boy, though not so well mounted, was just as good a rider as himself, and twenty pounds lighter, besides being without leathers, which raised the handicap to fully twenty-five pounds. In that first half mile on the home stretch the buckskin still was head and neck behind.
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