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A thick rime covered the ground, and a cold air blew across the fens, as the two riders with their charges took their way south. Jack, who by this time was well accustomed to the devious track across the fens, led the way at as rapid a pace as the horses could move, closely followed by Long Sam, who was now dressed as an ordinary jockey or rough-rider.
How often does one see one’s acquaintance in this distressing situation, with courage enough to dare what man dare, but without the power to do what the rough-rider has just done! First comes the false indication of the rider, then the confusion and hesitation of the horse; next the violence of the rider; then the despair and rebellion of the horse.
Next day the news was in both barricks, an' whin I met Dinah Shadd wid a cheek on me like all the reg'mintal tailor's samples there was no 'Good mornin', corp'ril, or aught else. 'An' what have I done, Miss Shadd, sez I, very bould, plantin' mesilf forninst her, 'that ye should not pass the time of day? "'Ye've half-killed rough-rider Dempsey, sez she, her dear blue eyes fillin' up.
He was near gone, yet we have held him back from that rough-rider, Death. "You will thank God, will you not, that my brother did not die? Indeed, I feel you have. I do not blame you; I know I need not tell you how the heart of the affair; and even my mother can see through the wretched thing.
I'm sure I don't; for all of the world I want to see just now is held within these walls." The very first time Ridge was allowed to go out, he was driven to the Rough-Rider camp to be mustered from service with his regiment.
He laughed sometimes not often, and then somewhat sarcastically but he did not make himself ridiculous. His amour propre was most intense. He appreciated fun, but did not care that it should be at his expense. He was grave, irritable and splenetic; but never comical. A braggart, a rough-rider, an aristocrat; but never a masquerader. That was the old-time idea.
He was near gone, yet we have held him back from that rough-rider, Death. "You will thank God, will you not, that my brother did not die? Indeed, I feel you have. I do not blame you; I know I need not tell you how the heart of the affair; and even my mother can see through the wretched thing.
Treat 'em decently and sit tight, and they'll come right and learn to trust you in the end." And, as mount after mount was delivered over to the waiting authorities, it came to be a matter of general belief that the regimental rough-rider knew his business, albeit he accomplished it more by dint of urging than by many blows. Six weeks of this work had told upon him, told in the right direction.
Accordingly I surrendered myself for two hours daily to the lessons in horsemanship of a principal groom who ranked as a first-rate rough-rider; and I gathered manifold experiences amongst the horses so different from the wild, hard-mouthed horses at Westport, that were often vicious, and sometimes trained to vice.
Trumbull was a vigorous orator and a rough-rider in debate, but he did not possess the store of legal knowledge and the vast fund of general information which Sumner could draw from. One has to read the fourth volume of Pierce's biography to realize the dimensions of Sumner's work during the period from 1861 to 1869.
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