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When he reached the point where he could see the little cabin where the men were probably hiding, he ran upon a thicket in which five saddle-horses were concealed. "Five to one! I don't stand much show if they see me," he decided as he rode quietly and slowly along, his carbine in his hand ready for use.
We calculate that it would be over £500, for the Earl of Cork paid £1000 a year for his two sons, their governor, only two servants and only saddle-horses: whereas Lassels hints that no one with much pretension to fashion could go through Paris without a coach followed by three lacqueys and a page.
Haward, arriving somewhat after time, found drawn up upon this piece of sward a coach, two berlins, a calash, and three chaises, while tied to hitching-posts, trees, and the fence were a number of saddle-horses.
Fashion and speech and manners may change, but the spirit of enterprise within that square mile or two of land must not change, for when it withers all that has grown from it must wither also. We lunched at Stephen's, the fashionable inn in Bond Street, where I saw a line of tilburys and saddle-horses, which stretched from the door to the further end of the street.
"Hell, I thought you was from New York?" "I lived in Kentucky until I was twenty-five." "Was your folks hoss-traders?" "Not exactly," laughed Bartley. "My father always kept a few good saddle-horses, however." "Uh-huh? I reckon he did. And you ain't forgot what a real hoss looks like, either." Wishful's pensive countenance lighted suddenly.
Six of her saddle-horses, splendidly caparisoned, walked proudly, as so many Archbishops, in the coronation procession; and in the royal stables of London and Windsor, her old favorites have been most tenderly cared for. When she could no longer use them, she still petted them, and never reproached them for having "outlived their usefulness."
Then he distinguished several saddle-horses tied to the fence surrounding the water-hole and there were figures of men walking to and from his house, many of them. He set spur to Pill and loped up to the fence. A Mexican with a hard, lined face stepped up to him. "You vamose!" he said, pointing down the road. Sundown stared at the men about the yard.
We are told that his father paid £700 for his fee of apprenticeship, and provided him a separate suite of apartments, a servant, and a pair of saddle-horses! The inference is that young John's progress in school was not such as to warrant his continuance at his books.
"Stock," said Starr, falling back on the standard excuse of the range man. "And what's the idea of two saddle-horses and two saddles and two bridles?" Helen May's voice was as simply curious as a child's. "The idea is that you're going to ride instead of walk from now on. It's an outfit I got from a fellow that was leaving.
'Perhaps one of the gentlemen would like to ride, sir? suggested the waiter, looking towards Mr. Winkle; 'very good saddle-horses, sir any of Mr. Wardle's men coming to Rochester, bring 'em back, Sir. 'The very thing, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Winkle, will you go on horseback? Now Mr.
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