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Basil?" asked Reybold one day, when his mind was very full of Joyce, the daughter. "Not while Congress is in session," said Mrs. Basil. "It's a little too much of the oi polloi for the Judge. His family, you may not know, Mr. Reybold, air of the Basils of King George. They married into the Tayloze of Mount Snaffle.
Lieutenant Lanier, somewhat pale but entirely placid, occupied a chair to the left of that table, with Captain Sumter, as his troop commander and counsel, by his side. Captain Snaffle was in support of the post commander to cross-question if he saw fit. Barker, the adjutant, was present, as a matter of course.
Grubbins, the schoolmaster, was a tyrant, and it was not long before my impetuous and self-willed nature rebelled against his authority. I soon began to form plans of revenge. In this I was assisted by Tom Snaffle, a schoolfellow. One day Tom suggested: "Suppose we blow him up. I've got two pounds of powder!" "No, that's too noisy," I replied. Tom was silent for a minute, and again spoke:
He goes very well in a snaffle." The conversation was here interrupted by a mail from England which they had been expecting. Captain Wilson retired with his letters; the Governor remained equally occupied; and our hero received the first letter ever written to him by his father. It ran as follows:
I wouldn't have suspected you of looking at things that way." "Mr. Snaffle is always surprising," Mrs. Sampson said, with her most dazzling smile, "but he is generally right." "Thank you. I can't help at any rate seeing that there are two sides to this thing, and I am too old a bird to be caught with the common chaff that people talk." Mr.
Snaffle, of course, was too shrewd to ask his companion to buy Princeton Platinum stock, and indeed declared that although he had charge of putting it upon the market, he was reluctant to part with a single share of it. He added with magnanimous frankness, that all mining stock was dangerous, especially for one who did not thoroughly understand it.
The surcingle is of leather, and fastens in the Mexican style; the girth is also of leather, three and a half inches wide, with a large buckle. It is in two parts, attached to the bars by raw-hide thongs. The curb and snaffle steel bits are used, and attached to a single head-stall.
A snaffle is a bit which acts on a horse's mouth by direct pressure, and not by leverage. A bridoon is the term applied to the snaffle of a double bridle, which is a bridle that has a curb and a snaffle. A double bridle is often called a "bit and bridoon."
'Ah, well! said Watchorn, 'that'll do two legs are too many for some of the rips they'll have to carry Let me see, continued he thoughtfully, 'I'll ride 'Arkaway. 'Yes, sir, said Snaffle. 'Sir 'Arry, 'It-me-'ard. 'Won't you put him on Sir-danapalis? asked Snaffle. 'No, replied Watchorn, 'no; I wants to save the Bart. I wants to save the Bart. Sir 'Arry must ride 'It-me-'ard.
"Or somebody starts a factory," Snaffle went on, "and then the town is made, ain't it? Outside capital is invested, outside operatives brought in to turn the place upside down and to bring in all the deviltries that have been invented, and all the town has to show in the long run is a little advance in real estate over the limited area where they want to build houses for the mill-hands.
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