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"However, when Stewart called, he got into a yarn with Alf, and had a drink of tea while Bob held the horses. Presently, according to Bob's account, the conversation grew closer; and, after an hour or so, Stewart told Bob to unharness the horses, and hobble them out where they could get a bite of grass. Altogether, Stewart stayed about half a day.
I made the whole trip on the driver's box, with a fox-skin cap on my head and the brush hanging down my back. Whenever we arrived at a station, I would unharness the horses and help hitch up the fresh ones, and would speak broken German with the postilions as though I were a Frenchman. At first we had beautiful weather, just as though spring were coming; but soon it turned very cold and wintry.
And the longer the drought lasted, the farther he had to go down the creek for his water, with a cask on a cart, and take his cows to drink, if he had any. Four, five, six, or seven miles even ten miles to water is nothing in some places. He helped me unharness and water and feed the horses, and then started to get the furniture off the waggon and into the house.
Nevertheless, he came sliding towards us, without, however, falling down; and when he saw that the horse with the broken leg still tried to get up, but always straightway fell again on the slippery ground, he hallooed and beckoned the fellows with pitchforks to come and unharness the mare; item, to push the cart over the bridge, lest it should be carried down the precipice.
Now, sit down by the fire whilst I lead the donkey and cart to the place where you stay; I will unharness the animal, and presently come and join you. 'I need not trouble you, said Isopel; 'I will go myself and see after my things. 'We will go together, said I, 'and then return and have some tea. Isopel made no objection, and in about half an hour we had arranged everything at her quarters.
"O, I shall get him out of the snow, first," said Jonas, "and take him to some level place, where he'll stand well." "How shall you get him out?" asked Oliver. "Why, we will unharness him first," said Jonas, "and then draw the sleigh back out of the way." So Jonas began to unbuckle the straps of the harness, in order to liberate the horse.
Thomas hurried through unhitching, and without waiting to unharness he stood the horses in their stalls, saying, "We may need them this afternoon again," and took Hughie off to the house straight-way. The usual beautiful order pervaded the house and its surroundings.
Jan, you may shut up the fowls; they have already gone to roost." "And what shall I do, Mother?" laughed Father Van Hove. "You," she called back, "you may unharness Pier and turn him out in the pasture for the night! And I'll wager I shall be back with a full milk-pail before you've even so much as fed the pig, let alone the other chores men are so slow!"
Zeb walked down again to unharness Jim, who, when he found himself free, rolled over a few times and then settled down to sleep, with Eureka nestling comfortably beside his big, boney body. Then the boy returned to one of the upper rooms, and in spite of the hardness of the glass bench was soon deep in slumberland. The Mangaboos Prove Dangerous
Karl Johan sat watching both his fore wheels, and felt his way on step by step; he was like a cat in a thunderstorm, he was so wary. "Hold your jaw!" he said sharply, when any one in the cart opened his lips. At last they found room to unharness, and a rope was tied from tree to tree to form a square in which the horses were secured.
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