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Indeed, it had got noised abroad that certain trotters of local fame were to be on the street that afternoon and, as the boys worded it, "There would be heaps of fun going on."
"Those are the ghosts that dig o' nights! Go smell 'em, Trotters! Are they the enemy?" The dog sniffed the bones, but slunk away again uninterested. "Nothing doing!" laughed Dick. "You haven't laid the ghost yet, Tom!" "Have you got your pistols with you?" Tom retorted, patting his own jacket to show the bulge of one beneath it.
"D'you suppose that brute swiped my liquor?" wondered Tom Tripe. "You mind the horses while I look." But suddenly there was a savage noise of trumpeting up-street, followed by a bark and a yelp of canine terror. "God!" swore Tom. "That's Trotters coming to fetch us! Akbar's chasing him back this way! Hang on to the horse like ten men! I'll go see!" He was outside before Dick could remonstrate.
You want me to tell how the trotters looked walking around in their dusters, with the eye-holes bound with red braid, and how the drivers of the sulkies sat with the tails of their horses tucked under one leg. Well, I'm not going to do anything of the kind, and if you don't like it, you can go to the box-office and demand your money back. I hope you'll get it.
Good hock action, hasn't he? that's rare in trotters around here. Tried to buy him. Feller wouldn't sell. His name's Vane he's drivin' him now." A lady of a somewhat commanding presence was beside him.
We'll soon have him up again. Better hurry now Trotters came for us." So many look at the color, So many study design, Some of 'em squint through a microscope To judge if the texture is fine. A few give a thought to the price of the stuff, Some feel of the heft in the hand, But once in a while there is one who can smile And appraising the lot understand.
He had been the Worthington coachman for five and twenty years, and he was known in Brampton as Silas the Silent. Young Mr. Worthington had no desire to talk that morning. The black trotters covered the ten miles in much quicker time than Lem Hallowell could do it in his stage, but the distance seemed endless to Bob.
He can rattle his dukes, and chuck his trotters, as I never saw man yet. Strips ten six. All good, too; all guts. You can't glut him.... I'm backing him to run ten miles in the hour against any man in England, and fight him to a finish in a 24-ft. ring at the end." The boy shoved back his plate. "And have you any other spiritual duties, sir?" he asked.
If you want to bait Kit Foy, do it yourself or set your city police on him." "I will." A faint tinge of color came to the clear olive of Anastacio's cheek as he rose. "But don't promise my place to any of them, sheriff. I might hear of it." "Stranger," said Ben Creagan, "you can't play pool! I can't and I beat you four straight games. You better toddle your little trotters off to bed."
"He went away some time ago. Wasn't that a corking good speech? Ah! You never know the value of an old friend until you use him as audience at the dress rehearsal of a speech! Pacers or trotters?" "Pacers," said she, "Storm and The Friar." "If you'll let me drive," he stipulated, "I'd like to go home with you." "Nobody but myself," said she, "ever drives this team.
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