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Updated: June 11, 2025
And to prove my earnest, I'll make you an offer; I'll bet my gun, which you saw me hand the landlord for safe keeping when they brought me in I'll bet my gun against your hat, I'll take that creature and out-trot you, with any hoss you may choose to bring on." "Done!" exclaimed Sturges; "but you are contriving this up for a chance to get away, you scamp." "What should I want to get away for?"
"You're mistaken, sir, I assure you quite mistaken," replied my friend, edging off to the side of the road, as was his wont on these alarming occasions. "Well, I am willing to venture the wine; or, I will bet you ten pieces to five, that I carry your portmanteau on my croupe, and out-trot you into the bargain." This proposal raised my friend's alarm to the uttermost.
He made some excuses to account for his sudden return, but they were unnecessary, for, so long as he paid his bill regularly, the landlord was perfectly satisfied. The next morning Maroney visited a livery stable owned by a man named Cook, who was a great favorite. He was said to have a horse which could out-trot anything in the city.
He feels himself personally disgraced by an insult to humanity, for he, too, is only a man; and however stately his house may be and murmurous with music, however glowing with pictures and graceful with statues and reverend with books however his horses may out-trot other horses, and his yachts outsail all yachts the gentleman is king and master of these and not their servant; he wears them for ornament, like the ring upon his finger or the flower in his button-hole, and if they go the gentleman remains.
He was dropping his r's like a Southerner, and you know how much of a Southerner Johnny is Johnstown, Pa.; and he was hollering around about his little three-year-old, standard-bred, and registered bay mare out of Highland Belle, by Homer Wilkes, with a mark of twenty-one, that could out-trot any thing of her age that ever champed a bit. Did you get that, Jim?
He found pleasure in telling her the story of Ulysses and Penelope. Most of the young men of Rumford who came to the Walden home could only talk about oxen, which pair of steers could pull the heaviest load, or whose horse could out-trot all others. When the surveying was done, Roger accepted the invitation of the committeemen to keep the winter school.
"You're mistaken, sir, I assure you quite mistaken," replied my friend, edging off to the side of the road, as was his wont on these alarming occasions. "Well, I am willing to venture the wine; or, I will bet you ten pieces to five, that I carry your portmanteau on my croupe, and out-trot you into the bargain." This proposal raised my friend's alarm to the uttermost.
Let him once get to his full pace, and he will out-trot any horse I ever saw." "Well, sir," replied his companion, "let us put to our spurs and see." "With all my heart," answered Wilton, and away they accordingly went, trotting as hard as they could go for the next four or five miles.
I then took a comfortable seat on a fence-rail and asked him if that was the fastest horse he owned. He answered: "No, by gosh, I own one that can out-trot this one." "Yes," I said, "but trotters won't do here. We must have a running horse to do this right."
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