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At arms' length Pat could easily have had the best of it, for the Indian never boxes; but, in a bear hug and a wrestle, all chances favored the Sioux. Cursing and straining, honors even on both for a while, Connaught and wild Wyoming strove for the mastery. Whiskey is a wonderful starter but a mighty poor stayer of a fight.
"Evidently," he went on, "Merriwell congratulated himself on the death of Del Norte, for he fancied that would put an end to all his troubles and he would be able to carry through his great schemes without opposition. He must be a bit disgusted now. He'll find Hagan a stayer. But he has strong backers behind him, and we need some men equally good, Felipe. There's Jerome Basil Jerome! Just the man!
The number eight being the first cube of an even number, and the double of the first square, seemed to be an emblem of the steadfast and immovable power of this god, who from thence has the names of Asphalius and Gaeiochus, that is, the establisher and stayer of the earth.
At level weights with the three-year-old, which means that he had twenty pounds the best of it, he should have held his own the whole route to be a stayer, for the colt isn't more'n half ready yet." "I didn't hustle him none too much, sir; I might a-squeezed a bit more out of him. Did we make fair time?" "Quite a feeler, Mister Jockey," thought Langdon to himself; "it's news you want, eh?"
"Sound, I'd say," was his verdict. "Good wind uncommon good wind. A goer, and a stayer. Not a lump. Not a hair out of place." He laughed. "Action a bit high perhaps for the track. But a grand reach." "I know all that," said I. "You miss my point. Suppose you wanted to enter me for say, the Society Sweepstakes what then?" "Um um," he muttered reflectively. "That's different."
But if thou sufferest them so far, do thou at the least defend this place against them, and stay this shameful flight of my people. So will I build a temple for thee in this place, even a temple of Jupiter the Stayer, that may be a memorial to after generations of how thou didst this day save this city."
The country is full of bold, bad men, who would palm off a kicking cow, or one that was not a stayer, onto their best friends. Another thing, we would advise Mr. Arthur not to use a milking stool with one leg, but to get one with three legs.
Likewise he shall have my cordial julep with a portion of this confection which we do call Theriaca Andromachi, which hath juice of poppy in it, and is a great stayer of anguish. This fellow is at his prayers to-day, but I warrant thee he shall be swearing with the best of them to-morrow." They jog along the bridle-path on their horses until they come to another lowly dwelling.
Yorke he gen'rally rides th' black, Parson, so ye'll take th' sorrel, Fox, for yeh pathrols. He's a good stayer, an' fast. Ye'll want tu watch him at mounthin' tho' he's not a mane harse, but he has a quare thrick av turnin' sharp tu th' 'off' just as ye go tu shwing up into th' saddle.
I sat there figgerin' how I was goin' to git out o' that hole; an' my figgerin' wasn't anyways satisfactory. I knew the bear was a stayer, all right. There'd be no such a thing as tryin' to crawl 'round that shoulder o' rock till I was blame sure he wasn't on t'other side; an' how I was goin' to find that out was more than I could git at. There was no such a thing as climbin' up.
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