pony-shoes

Updated: June 15, 2025

After wandering about for some time, and meeting with various adventures, in one of which I contrived to obtain a pony, cart, and certain tools used by smiths and tinkers, I came to this place, where I amused myself with making horse-shoes, or rather pony-shoes, having acquired the art of wielding the hammer and tongs from a strange kind of smith—not him of Gretna Green—whom I knew in my childhood.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

After wandering about for some time, and meeting with various adventures, in one of which I contrived to obtain a pony, cart, and certain tools used by smiths and tinkers, I came to this place, where I amused myself with making horse-shoes, or rather pony-shoes, having acquired the art of wielding the hammer and tongs from a strange kind of smith not him of Gretna Green whom I knew in my childhood.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

After wandering about for some time, and meeting with various adventures, in one of which I contrived to obtain a pony, cart and certain tools, used by smiths and tinkers, I came to this place, where I amused myself with making horse-shoes, or rather pony-shoes, having acquired the art of wielding the hammer and tongs from a strange kind of smith not him of Gretna Green whom I knew in my childhood.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest