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Updated: May 21, 2025
But from a yet farther seat, partly concealed behind a dwarf tree golden with oranges, there rose and advanced towards the poet a person whose costume was the most aggressively opposite to his own. This figure was clad in tweeds of a piebald check, with a pink tie, a sharp collar and protuberant yellow boots.
A step farther. Why does a piebald pony never pay toll? Because his master pays it for him. Why is the letter S like a sewing-machine? Because it makes needles needless. What is the difference between a cow and a rickety chair? What flower most resembles a bull's mouth? A cowslip. What does a stone become in the water? Wet.
So fond was Don Gregorio of his piebalds that he spent the greater part of every day on horseback with his different herds of mares, each led by its own proud piebald stallion. He was perpetually waiting and watching with anxious interest for the appearance of a new foal.
I felt a strong hand grasping me by the back of my neck, and I gave myself up for lost. "'Well, here's an odd creature, a piebald rat! I take it that's quite a curiosity! cried the farmer who held me in his grasp. I expected that he would dash me against the wall the next moment, and then set his heel upon my poor body!
"Why, he didn't say much. Hinted around that maybe Bard had walked off with the piebald hoss he was ridin'." "That's a lie." "Lady," said the other a little coldly, "you say that like you was a friend of Bard's." "Me? There ain't nobody around these parts man enough to say to my face that I'm a friend of that tenderfoot." "I'm glad of that. My name's Ralph Boardman." "I'm Sally Fortune."
Despite the difference in their avoirdupois the two old ladies showed themselves to be what they were sisters. The thin one was driving the piebald pony. "Gidap, Ginger!" she announced, flapping the reins. She had better have refrained from waking up Ginger just at that moment.
Piebald horse, broad, eccentric wagon, cymbals and drum there was no mistaking the outfit, nor the minstrel himself with his broad-brimmed sombrero tipped protectively over his nose. Now despite the fact that the Baron had hinted that Ronador's masquerade was at an end, the music-machine steadily approached and halted.
Down the brae face from the green meadowlets that fringed the moor came the long procession of cows. Swinging a little from side to side, they came black Galloways, and the red and white breed of Ayrshire in single file the wavering piebald line following the intricacies of the path.
He never misses 'the Derby. 'Archer, he said to me only yesterday, 'I have been at sixty-five Derbies! appeared on the field for the first time on a piebald pony when I was seven years old, with my father, the Prince of Wales, and Colonel Hanger; and only missing two races one when I had the measles at Eton, and one in the Waterloo year, when I was with my friend Wellington in Flanders."
"Piebald horses are lucky, too," he observed, knocking the ashes from his pipe against the window sash. "I had one of them once." "What did it do to you?" I enquired. "Lost me the best crib I ever had in my life," was the simple rejoinder. "The governor stood it a good deal longer than I had any right to expect; but you can't keep a man who is always drunk. It gives a firm a bad name."
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