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Updated: May 27, 2025
In term-time, bicycles were stored in the loose-box which had once echoed to the tramping of Derby favourites. I groped about among the pots and brushes, and found a candle-end, which I lit. I was running a risk, but it was necessary to inspect our ground. I had never troubled really to examine this stable before, and I wished to put myself in touch with its geography.
She was calmly exposed to his embrace if he had only dared; but he did not dare, and went back to the loose-box wall. Biting his finger, he stared at her gloomily. She was stroking the muzzle of her horse; and a sort of dry rage began whisking and rustling in his heart. She had refused him Harbinger! He had not known, had not suspected how much he wanted her.
In a large loose-box at the end of the north wing Barbara's favourite chestnut hunter, all but one saving sixteenth of whom had been entered in the stud book, having heard her footstep, was standing quite still with his neck turned.
Albert followed at a distance, slow and sullen. Boy entered the loose-box, and Billy Bluff rose to greet her with a yawn. The door of the loose-box closed. The girl bent to her task. A hand was laid upon her shoulder. She looked up sharply. Jim Silver was standing above her, and the door was shut. "It's you, is it?" she said. He took her quivering life into his arms. "Now," she sighed.
Albert whistled softly and the horse turned his long neck and gazed at them with wise and quizzical eye. "Ain't he a big un?" cried Cherry, the note of irony dropping from his voice in spite of himself. Billy Bluff, who had been curled under the manger, came across the loose-box and sniffed the little ostler friendly. "'Ullo, Billy!" said the old man. "Do you sleep in here?"
The National was coming on in a few weeks. The mare had to win at all costs. Since her victory and defeat at Aintree in the previous March she had never run but once in public, and that time had scattered her field. Jaggers had been laying her up in lavender all the winter for the great race, and she was now at the top of her form. They took Joses round to her loose-box.
As the result, a few days afterwards three little terriers, specially trained for "drawing" a badger, arrived at the Master's house, and were accommodated in a vacant "loose-box" in the stables.
Now let us come to the next stable, which is mine solely and peculiarly; and if my stud does not astonish and delight you, all I can say is I will be much disappointed." With this preface we entered. The stable was well fitted up in every respect. There were three horses in the stalls, and one in a loose-box, which opened into the stable.
Then night fell over the Cantonments, and there was a noise as of a horse kicking his loose-box to pieces in Yale's stables. Yale had a big, old, white Waler trap-horse.
And, indeed, it was scarcely fair of Dogberry, when his own soft thing had fallen through, to make Jim cover his dignified retreat. With deepening colour, she led the way to the stable, and opened a loose-box, disclosing Pup, crouched, sphynx-like, with a large bone between his paws. The red collar was gone; and he was chained to the manger by a hame-strap.
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