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Then he had brought her home to England, her reputation already made, and growing hugely all the while, suddenly to overwhelm the world, when she crowned her victories on three continents by winning the Grand National at Liverpool only to be disqualified for crossing amid one of the stormiest scenes in racing history. After that Mocassin ceased to be a mare.
I climbed to take the young ones, obtained two, which I put in my round jacket, and looked about me to see where I should jump upon the ground. After much turning about, I suspended myself by the hands from a hanging branch, and allowed myself to drop down. My left foot fell flat, but under the soft sole of my right mocassin I felt something alive, heaving or rolling.
Francisco, from the Valparaiso and China traders, his leg from the ankle to the hip is covered by a pair of leggings of deer-skin, dyed red or black with some vegetable acids, and sewed with human hair, which hangs flowing, or in tresses, on the outward side; these leggings are fastened a little above the foot by other metal bracelets, while the foot is encased in an elegantly finished mocassin, often edged with small beautiful round crimson shells, no bigger than a pea, and found among the fossil remains of the country.
And if his best was never very good, at least his references to Mocassin brought down the house. "She is something moa than the best steeplechaser that ever looked through a bridle-ah," he announced in his somewhat portentous way. "She is in my judgment the realization of a dream. In her have met once more the two great streams of the Anglo-Saxon race.
"There is a more beautiful sort, purple and white, which blooms in August; the plant is taller, and bears large lovely flowers." "And has it a funny face and ears too, nurse?" "Yes, my dear, but the face is more like an ape's; it is even more distinct than in the yellow mocassin.
Mocassin! Mocassin! the simple song became for the moment clothed in vicarious majesty. Jim Silver felt the thrill of it, as did his companion. "Mar'd like that," said Old Mat sentimentally. "She's same as me. She likes hymns." The object of the enthusiasm seemed unconscious of it.
"He's up against something mighty big," said Jim, nodding at the wall. On it was pinned a great coloured double-page picture from The Sporting and Dramatic of the famous American mare Mocassin. Beside it were various cuttings from daily papers, recounting the romantic history of the popular favourite, and beneath the picture were three lines from the Mocassin Song
I know'd who did it; tho' not that night for it war so dark among the bushes, I couldn't see a steim. But I kim back in the mornin', and seed tracks. They war the tracks o' a mocassin. I know'd 'em to be hern." "Su-wa-nee's tracks?" "Sartin. I know'd 'em well enough, as I'd often seed her tracks through the crik bottom." "Did you take no steps to punish her?" "Well no I didn't." "How is that?
If Chukkers was little more than an animal-riding animal, and Jaggers an artistic fraud, Ikey was a rascal of a highly differentiated and engaging type. A man of admirable tenacity he had clung for twenty-five years to the ideal which Chukkers's discovery of Mocassin two years since had brought within his grasp.
Then, when feeling was at its highest, the Mocassin Song had suddenly taken America by storm. Sung first in the Empire Theatre on the Broadway by Abe Gideon, the bark-blocks comedian, ten days after the mare's victory and defeat, it had raged through the land like a prairie fire. Cattle-men on the Mexican Border sung it in the chaparral, and the lumber-camps by the Great Lakes echoed it at night.
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