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Updated: June 6, 2025
A section of the fire department passes, that imposing but amusing procession of hand-engine, three water-barrels, pennons, and fine horses trained in the haute ecole, which does splendid work with apparently inadequate means. An officer in gray lambskin cap flashes by, drawn by a pair of fine trotters. "Vot on sam!" mutters our izvostchik, There he is himself!
"After our farm," I broke in with a touch of irony, "and to ride behind the fast trotters compared with our farm wagon " "David," returned Penelope in a voice of reproach, "I have never forgotten the mountains, or the cabin, or the farm. In the first days away from them I was terribly homesick for them all. My uncle suffered for it.
In the tripe market Auguste and Augustine, with the foolish expression of newly-married people, had just been purchasing some pigs' trotters, and were starting off in a trap for their pork shop at Montrouge. Then, as it was now eight o'clock and already quite warm, Claude, on again coming to the Rue Rambuteau, perceived Muche and Pauline playing at horses.
"Gungadhura's turban that he wore the night when Akbar chased him down the street." Yasmini nodded, understanding instantly. Five minutes later, after a rousing stiff night-cap, Tom took his leave. They heard his voice outside the window: "Trotters!" The dog's tail beat three times on the veranda. "Take a smell o' this!" There was silence, followed by a growl. "If he comes, kill him!
He was quite overcome by this treatment of a penniless young Yankee. The Colonel did not talk politics such was not his notion of hospitality to a stranger. He talked horse, and no great discernment on Stephen's part was needed to perceive that this was Mr. Carvel's hobby. "I used to have a stable, Mr. Brice, before they ruined gentleman's sport with these trotters ten years ago.
Then the life he's got is sufficient to drive a man mad." "Selecting is pretty hard," agreed Nellie, sadly. "Nellie and I know a little about that, Mr. Sim," said Ned. "Well, Jones' selection is a hard one," went on Sim, goodhumouredly. "I prefer to sell trotters, when I sell out like this, to attempting it. The soil is all stones, and there is not a drop of water when the least drought comes on.
There was a whisking scamper of hoofs as the beasts fled every way, only to bunch anew a little farther out of the path of these wild riders. Now Stair and Louis found themselves on a kind of track, narrow and stony underfoot. The blackfaced sheep of the hills had made it so, with their little pattering trotters which dug out a stone at every step.
"Well, hold on don't pay out any bills to-day; I want to make use of that money two great opportunities here. Say!" he added in the next breath, "do you know anything about sailing yachts and trotters?" The question fairly staggered Mr. Wright, but he answered promptly: "Nothing whatever, Mr. Armstrong.
Then, as a customer entered the shop, and asked for a couple of pig's trotters, Lisa wrapped them up, and handed them over with a thoughtful air. "For my own part, I bear La Normande no ill-will," she said to Mademoiselle Saget, when they were alone again. "I used to be very fond of her, and have always been sorry that other people made mischief between us.
Trotters is profitable, too, if you've a start, that is, though it's women mostly that 'andles trotters, blest if I know why! I've a cousin in the boiled pudding business meat puddings and fruit, too; but it's all going out, along of the bakers that don't give poor folks a chance.
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