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Jones on his way home" "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" "kiss" "Miss Blake, she's the girl with a foot and ankle" "Daly has never had wool on his sheep" "how could he" "what does he pay for the mountain" "four and tenpence a yard" "not a penny less" "all the cabbage-stalks and potato-skins" "with some bog stuff through it" "that's the thing to" "make soup, with a red herring in it instead of salt" "and when he proposed for my niece, ma'am, says he" "mix a strong tumbler, and I'll make a shake-down for you on the floor" "and may the Lord have mercy on your soul" "and now, down the middle and up again" "Captain Magan, my dear, he is the man" "to shave a pig properly" "it's not money I'm looking for, says he, the girl of my heart" "if she had not a wind-gall and two spavins" "I'd have given her the rights of the church, of coorse," said Father Roach, bringing up the rear of this ill-assorted jargon.
Having found an animal of the desired type and breed, the question arises, "Is it sound of wind and limb?" Houses nearing or past the century mark also have their spavins and these should be recognized by the prospective buyer. He can thus form some estimate of how extensive replacements are needed, even on first inspection.
"Oh, I hain't danced none yit," said Captain Pharo, too confident to show contempt; "only warmin' my spavins;" and he heartlessly turned the complete flower in view for the further annihilation of the gentleman in black.
"You know, Doctor," said the horse, "that vet over the hill knows nothing at all. He has been treating me six weeks now for spavins. What I need is SPECTACLES. I am going blind in one eye. There's no reason why horses shouldn't wear glasses, the same as people. But that stupid man over the hill never even looked at my eyes. He kept on giving me big pills.
From every side Worlington Dodds heard of yearlings, of windgalls, of roarers, of spavins, of cribsuckers, of a hundred other terms which were as unintelligible to him as his own Stock Exchange jargon would have been to the company. He asked the waiter for the reason of it all, and the waiter was an astonished man that there should be any man in this world who did not know it.
In a long life of dealing in various kinds of property, including horse-trading, very few people have ever got the best of me, and everybody knows that this is less a boast than a confession; and yet, this one good act of standing by this poor girl in her dreadful plight degraded me more in the minds of the community than all the spavins, thorough-pins, poll-evils and the like I ever concealed or glossed over.
They prove excellent Drudges, and will travel incredible Journeys. They are troubled with very few Distempers, neither do the cloudy-fac'd grey Horses go blind here, as in Europe. As for Spavins, Splints, and Ring-Bones, they are here never met withal, as I can learn.
The whole world must know of it. Harken ye all to this! "'Let all men that be troubled of aches, spavins, rheums, boils, maladies of the spleen or humours of the blood, come forthwith to the sign of the Red Lantern in East Cheap. There shall they find one that hath a marvelous remedy for all such ailments, brought with great dangers and perils of the journey from a far distant land.
Nothing so surely generates spavins, curbs, and thorough-pins. When skilful, you may make the colt change without stopping, or longe a figure of =8=. This may be done, even without the long cord, by the centripetal force of carrots and the centrifugal force of the stick. When this is done in the open field it looks like mesmerism or magic.
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