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Updated: May 15, 2025
Old Dan Harris, the stableman, stood in the door and silently he pointed to a gray horse in the barn-yard. "You know that hoss?" "Yes." "You know whut's he here fer?" "I've heard." "Well, I'm lookin' fer Dave every day now." "Well, maybe I'd better ride Dave's horse now," said Hale jestingly. "I wish you would," said old Dan.
Solid tin shelters rose for the guard and the sergeants; a substantial tin canteen was erected close to the lines by cynical provision-dealers. Those visionary rebels declined to show themselves; nobody attacked our precious pass; and, in short, we had to concentrate our minds upon the narrow circle of our daily life. A recurring duty for drivers was that of "stableman."
"My name's Joe Smith. I'm a stableman in Number Two." "And what were ye doin' up there, if a body might ask?" She lifted her grey eyes to the bare mountainside, down which he had come sliding in a shower of loose stones and dirt. "I've been surveying my empire," said he. "Your what?" "My empire. The land belongs to the company, but the landscape belongs to him who cares for it."
"Now we'll put them in this basket, and they're ready for the picnic," Harry announced to his much interested companions. Then all started for the house with Harry and the basket in the lead. John, the stableman, was at the door now with the big hay wagon, which had been chosen as the best thing to take the jolly party in.
At the village of Belgrad they dismounted, left the horses in the care of a Turkish stableman, and went for a walk among the trees. It was very hot and still, and presently Mrs. Clarke said she would sit down and rest. "You and Jimmy go on if you want to," she said. But Jimmy threw himself down on the ground. "I'm tired. It's so infernally hot." "Take a nap," said his mother.
The old stableman was very jealous, when he heard of it, and wondered what he could do to injure the youth in the eyes of his royal master. At last he hit upon a plan, and told the king that the young man had boasted that he could bring home the king's wife, who had vanished many months before, without leaving a trace behind her.
Grute was the filthy stableman; and the landlord, half-dreaming, ran off to fetch him a most unfortunate circumstance, as it put the rogue upon his guard, and prepared him for the part which it was necessary for his safety that he should play. The landlord returned in two minutes, dragging Grute in with him.
He shouted an order into the darkness of the stable. An interval ensued. The stableman and Tally waited imperturbably, without the faintest expression of interest in anything evident on their immobile countenances. Dicky Darrell rocked back and forth on his heels, a pleased smile on his face.
"See there, now! Ain't he peaceable? Nothing mean under his whole hide; just wants to go. The other one will nip your fingers once in a while, if you don't watch out, but he don't mean anything, either; it's all in fun." He gave his place to the boy again and stepped back to Tisdale's side, still watching his team, while a second stableman hurried to fasten the traces.
That was the beginning of it, yet, notwithstanding Buck had made up his mind that whatever happened he would make himself "suit," still he met with a serious discouragement the very next morning, when his unwilling ears overheard a conversation between the surgeon and the stableman.
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