walking-gait

Updated: June 30, 2026

At first, why they are riding so slowly, for as long as seen they were proceeding in a walking-gait rarely witnessed upon the pampas, and never where the horseman is a gaucho; for he gallops if it were but to the stream, within a stone's throw of his solitary cabin, to fetch a jar of water! "Nothing in that," he mutters, "now I come to think of it.

Mayne Reid - Gaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran Chaco