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He followed her heavily, his eyes brimming laughter and delight. A few minutes later Silver joined Monkey Brand in the loose-box. "Good little try-on, sir," said the jockey busily. "Funny smelling stuff though." Removing a rug, he produced a bucket hidden beneath and held it to the other's nose. "Chuck it down the drain," said the young man. "'Alf a mo, sir," protested Monkey Brand.
And you'll paint him, eh?" "Yes I'll paint him." The assent was very husky, and dragged slowly out, while his eyes glanced with a furtive, frightened glance over the loose-box.
The girl walked beside the barrow, one hand steadying the foal, who reared an uncanny head. They passed through the yard, jolted noisily over the cobbles, and turned into a great cool loose-box, deep in moss-litter. "I'll go and get the bottle," said the girl. "George, just run and bring a couple of armfuls of litter-grass off the stack and pile it in that corner."
The hard lips could never have framed the words, but the vague feeling in his heart, as he looked at the dark vision, was: "It's a pity of you, sir." He put on his coat rapidly, and went out to the stable. An instinct prompted him to lock the door. He entered the loose-box. A shaft of golden light, aswarm with motes, slanted in the quietness.
Many a morning had I stood at the loose-box door and watched the devil in the horse and the devil in the man battle for mastery, and aye the horse was cowed.
'Nonsense, said Fleete;'my mare will follow me like a dog. He went to her; she was in a loose-box; but as he slipped the bars she plunged, knocked him down, and broke away into the garden. I laughed, but Strickland was not amused. He took his moustache in both fists and pulled at it till it nearly came out. Fleete, instead of going off to chase his property, yawned, saying that he felt sleepy.
At this delightful house in Perthshire, where I am on a visit, there is a well-bred pointer, named Fop, who, when not engaged in his professional pursuits on the moor, lives chiefly in a kennel placed in a loose-box adjoining the other stables attached to the house. Nearly a year ago there were a pair of pigeons who lived in and about the stable yard.
She saw his gallant head looking down at her, and she managed to call out to him, 'Go home, my bonnie Lightning Speed; go home, and get some one to bring ropes for poor Hollyhock. Oh, but you are a brave and noble beastie! The horse was puzzled whether to obey or not. Home to him was not the Palace of the Kings, but his own comfortable loose-box at The Garden.
The grunts and snortings were continued with a crescendo movement; an eager nose was rattling the latch of the door that shut off the loose-box. "If you have a good memory for old friends, I think you will know this one," said Rorie, withdrawing a bolt.
The ambling piebald looked so crestfallen and woebegone in all the swaddling-clothes in which Leather had got him enveloped, that Mr. Sponge did not care to look at the gallant Hercules, who occupied a temporary loose-box at the far end of the dark stable, lest he might look worse. He, therefore, just mounted Multum-in-Parvo as Leather led him out at the door, and set off without a word.
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