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Updated: June 11, 2025
To receive a quarter-mile start on the race-course and ride a mile race against Khodadad Khan on his troop-horse, or with one of the syces on one of the Colonel's polo-ponies, or with some obliging male or female early morning rider, was the joy of his life.
Rob Roy, disengaged from his bonds, doubtless by Ewan's slipping the buckle of his belt, had dropped off at the horse's tail, and instantly dived, passing under the belly of the troop-horse which was on his left hand.
A horse-belt, passed round the bodies of both, and buckled before the yeoman's breast, rendered it impossible for Rob Roy to free himself from his keeper. I was directed to keep close beside them, and accommodated for the purpose with a troop-horse.
Like the fat troop-horse that looks so sightly on parade, a week's campaigning reduced him to a miserable object flabby, shrunk, dispirited, and with a sinking heart at least, if not a sore back. Dorothea's person blocked up the staircase before him, or he would have slipped by and locked himself unnoticed in his chambers. "Can I speak with you, sir?" said the charwoman.
Now you mention it," said Billy, "you don't look as though you were made for climbing or running much. Well, how was it, old Hay-bales?" "The proper way," said the camel. "We all sat down " "Oh, my crupper and breastplate!" said the troop-horse under his breath. "Sat down!"
A horse-belt, passed round the bodies of both, and buckled before the yeoman's breast, rendered it impossible for Rob Roy to free himself from his keeper. I was directed to keep close beside them, and accommodated for the purpose with a troop-horse.
And in all that relates to green fodder or dry, barley and oats and rye, and the handling of squadrons upon the march, there is no one who can teach me very much. But when I meet a Chamberlain and a Marshal of the Palace, and have to pick my words with an Emperor, and find that everybody hints instead of talking straight out, I feel like a troop-horse who has been put in a lady's calèche.
"By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks," snorted the troop-horse, "do you mean to say that you aren't taught to be bridle-wise in your business? How can you do anything, unless you can spin round at once when the rein is pressed on your neck? It means life or death to your man, and of course that's life and death to you.
"The idea of a fourteen-hand mule with your training disgracing the battery before this gentleman!" "Gently, gently!" said the troop-horse. "Remember they are always like this to begin with. Nearly all our horses for the English cavalry are brought to India from Australia, and are broken in by the troopers themselves. "True enough," said Billy. "Stop shaking, youngster.
A tail at each end isn't fair!" "My feelings exactly," said Billy, crowding into the troop-horse for company. "We're very alike in some things." "I suppose we've inherited them from our mothers," said the troop horse. "It's not worth quarreling about. Hi! Two Tails, are you tied up?" "Yes," said Two Tails, with a laugh all up his trunk. "I'm picketed for the night.
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