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Now Archie was known to be a great man in a yacht, cognizant of ropes, well up in booms and spars, very intimate with bolts, and one to whose hands a tiller came as naturally as did the saddle of a steeple-chase horse to the legs of his friend Doodles. "They are going to fish," said the rector.
'Put him in a steeple-chase, and you'd get your money back in ten minutes, and a bagful to boot. 'True, observed Mr. Thornton, treasuring that fact up as an additional inducement to use to his friend. So the amiable gentlemen parted.
At any rate, if he can't write, he has mastered a number of other accomplishments wonderful for one of his age and size. He is one of the best shots and riders in England. He rode his horse Abracadabra, and won the famous Guttlebury steeple-chase. He has lost and won such sums of money as my Lord George himself might be proud of.
They have gained but twice the great international steeple-chase founded in 1874 the first time with Miss Hungerford in the year just mentioned, and again with Congress in 1877.
And here, Bill you run back, shut the door, and don't let nobody know the 'osses are out till the morning. Then look like a muff as you are, and say nothing!" The stable-boy stared, nodded assent, and sloped off. Rake threw himself across the brown mare. "Now, sir! a steeple-chase for our lives!
Sponge did not gain as much by winning the steeple-chase as he would have done had Hercules allowed him to lose it, he still did pretty well; and being at length starved out of Nonsuch House, he arrived at his old quarters, the Bantam, in Bond Street, where he turned his attention very seriously to providing for Lucy and the little Sponge, who had now issued its prospectus.
In the last field before they turned, was a brook seventeen feet clear from side to side, with good taking off both banks. Here real business commenced. Lord Monmouth highly approved the scheme, but mentioned that the stakes must be moderate, and open to the whole county. The neighbourhood had a week of preparation, and the entries for the Coningsby steeple-chase were numerous.
When the steeple-chase race was prepared for, Garth brought up Buffalo, looking, as he always did, a grand horse, and amongst the more horsey of the Danes there was much praise of him. John Hardy mounted; he had taken off his coat, waistcoat, and braces, and Garth had tied a blue silk handkerchief on his head.
The fact is, he was going to pay his losses upon the last Manchester steeple-chase, and I leave you to imagine how much principal or interest poor Polly ever saw back again. 'It was more than half her fortune, and he has had another thousand since from her. Pump and his wife are abroad I don't like to ask where; Polly has the three children, and Mr.
There was not the slightest necessity for enquiring whether she felt fatigued, for she was looking even more lovely than in the morning; or whether she had been amused or not, for if the steeple-chase had not delighted her, something else had, for there was a radiant smile on her face which could not be mistaken.
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