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And Bucephalus, skimming under Alexander the plains of Asia, must have had just this glorious sense of freedom. Only less so! Not Pegasus himself can have flown more swiftly. Pegasus, at last, became a constellation in the sky. 'Some day, reflected the rocking-horse, when the ride was over, 'I, too, shall die; and five stars will appear on the nursery ceiling.
Reflects Mrs Podsnap; fine woman for Professor Owen, quantity of bone, neck and nostrils like a rocking-horse, hard features, majestic head-dress in which Podsnap has hung golden offerings.
"This is one of their rooms everything ready, you see." She pointed into a heavily-timbered room. There were little low gate tables and children's chairs. A doll's house, its hooked front half open, faced a great dappled rocking-horse, from whose padded saddle it was but a child's scramble to the broad window-seat overlooking the lawn. A toy gun lay in a corner beside a gilt wooden cannon.
He stretched himself on a faded couch while he considered where to begin his operations, and stared at the deeply-cut initials on the mantelshelf, and regretted that the chimney-piece in the nursery at home, being stone, did not lend itself to similar delights. With a sigh he rolled over, and the rocking-horse met his gaze. He looked at it so long that his eyes blinked.
What 'ud you recommend?" 'Most men would have besought 'im to do a lateral glide while there was yet time, but all I said was: "The rocking-horse isn't expended yet, sir." 'He laid his hand on my shoulder. "Pye," says he, "there's worse men than you in loftier places. They shall 'ave it. None the less," he remarks, "the ice is undeniably packing."
So he began once more, "I am going to open a Toy Shop in the woods." "Will you make a rocking-horse?" asked the First Little Bear. "Will you make drums?" asked the Second Little Bear. "Will you make horns? Toot, toot, toot!" said the Third Little Bear. Now, will you believe it? All the Seventeen Little Bears put their paws to their mouths as though they had horns and cried, "Toot, toot, toot!"
Are you going to use him for a rattle-box, or a rocking-horse, or what? 'I want to make him happy. Mr. St. Clare laughed; but after making a few more jokes about it, he gave Haley the money he asked for, and Tom had a new master. 'Come, Eva, said Mr. St. Clare, and, taking her hand, went across the boat to Tom. 'Look up, Tom, he said to him, 'and see how you like your new master.
If George rode the huge rocking-horse, he was Paul Revere, or some equally historic figure, and sometimes, to Edith's terror, he was compelled to assume the role of Bluebeard, when Honora submitted to decapitation with a fortitude amounting to stoicism. Hide and seek was altogether too tame for her, a stake of life and death, or imprisonment or treasure, being a necessity.
"Why, mamma's husband. He is not my papa by rights." "Certainly not, my love; not by rights I comprehend." "Eh!" "Yes, I am going to see your papa by wrongs Mr. Templeton." "Oh, this way, then." "You are very fond of Mr. Templeton, my little angel." "To be sure I am. You have not seen the rocking-horse he is going to give me." "Not yet, sweet child! And how is mamma?"
After reading the book about King Arthur he became almost exclusively Sir Lamorac de Galis, because, though there was very little about him, he preferred his name to that of any other knight; and he rode his old rocking-horse to death, armed with a long bamboo.
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