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The fat man beckoned him in, and returned to his bed. The little jockey entered. He was dark, sullen, dangerous. "Well?" said the tout, lying in disarray upon the bed. "I thought you'd done a get-away," said Monkey surlily. "I've been queer," answered the other. "Has the stuff worked?" "Worked!" cried the jockey, with smothered fury. "It's worked my trick all right. Never touched the 'orse.
Some of the troopers shaded their eyes with their hands and said "What the mischief 'as that there 'orse got on 'im?" In another minute they heard a neigh that every soul horse and man in the Regiment knew, and saw, heading straight toward the Band, the dead Drum-Horse of the White Hussars!
'Ah, he said; 'she rode beautiful! And he remembered the 'orse well. The major, he wasn't 'ere just then, so I let him try the young un; he popped 'im over a fence or two, and when he come back he says, 'Well, I'm goin' to have 'im. Speaks very pleasant, an' don't waste no time 'orse was away before the end of the week.
The guv'nor had got off, no doubt, to unhitch that heavy gate the one you had to lift. That 'orse he was a masterpiece of mischief! His difference with the animal still rankled in a mind that did not easily forgive. Half an hour later, he entered the lighted kitchen shaking and gasping, tears rolling down his furrowed cheeks into the corners of his gargoyle's mouth, and panted out: "O, my Gord!
Finally he called: "Hi!" "Hullo!" said Mr. Polly. "You needn't 'old that 'orse," said the old gentleman. "Spirited beast," said Mr. Polly. "And," with some faint analogy to ginger beer in his mind "he's up today." "'E won't turn 'isself round," said the old gentleman, "anyow. And there ain't no way through for 'im to go." "Verbum sap," said Mr.
But when we caught him 'e 'ad the 'orse an' the bag an' the pistols." "When you caught who?" "The 'orse-thief. I mean this young man." "And you recognized him then?" "Yes, sir, I knowed 'im by the bag, an' the 'orse." "But you say he was a much larger man than this one." "Oh, yes, sir! He was more 'n six foot an' as big across the shoulders as two of 'im."
By the powers of Moll Kelly, but you won't serve Pat Kallahan that dirty trick again anyhow. "As he levelled at me, I fell back, and the ball passed right over me and struck a wounded orse that was broke down behind, and a sittin' up on his fore-legs like a dog. Oh, the scream of that are hanimal, Sir, was just like a Christian's. It was hawful. I have the sound of it in my ears now halmost.
The Londoners, who look down with contempt upon all that have not been bred and born within the sound of Bow, talk with unconscious absurdity of weal and winegar, and vine and vindors, and idears, and ask you owyou do? and 'ave ye bin taking the hair in 'yde park? and 'as your 'orse 'ad any hoats, &c.? aspirating always where they should not, and never aspirating where they should.
Can't have the 6.30 standing about on this 'ere line all night, 'cos of the Limited. Now then, all together, shove! they've got the old 'orse on at the other end." And to Paul's alarm he felt the truck in which he was begin to move ponderously on the greasy metals, and strike the next with its buffers with a jarring shock and a jangling of coupling chains.
'Them's some of your chaps, ain't they? remarked Grinder. 'Yes, replied Rushton. 'We're doing a job up this way. 'I should 'ave thought it would pay you better to use a 'orse for sich work as that, said Grinder.
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