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'Woa! he began again, and the horses tugged and slipped where they stood, moved on a few steps, and stopped again. 'To Thy protection we flee, Holy Mother of God! he whispered, took his axe and cut into the smooth road in front of the horses. It took him a long time to cover the short distance to the high road, but when they got there, the horses refused to go on at all.
"I'll give you a hand with the trunk," called Sharp, laboriously climbing out of the wagon. "Woa there," as the mare pawed restlessly on the ground. "I'll come and help you if you'll wait a bit. Come on in, Nora."
Leftherhis Secondbest Leftherhis Bestabed Secabest Leftabed. Woa! Pretty countryfolk had few chattels then, John Eglinton observed, as they have still if our peasant plays are true to type. He was a rich country gentleman, Stephen said, with a coat of arms and landed estate at Stratford and a house in Ireland yard, a capitalist shareholder, a bill promoter, a tithefarmer.
His interest in the scene, however, was distracted by the sudden advent of Captain Stride, whose horse a long-legged roan had an awkward tendency, among other eccentricities, to advance sideways with a waltzing gait, that greatly disconcerted the mariner. "Woa! you brute. Back your tops'ls, won't you? I never did see sitch a craft for heavin' about like a Dutch lugger in a cross sea.
Johnny Connolly advanced, still calling upon his God, and the mare uttered a low but vehement neigh. "Ye're deshtroyed, Miss Fanny! And Mr. Gunning, the Lord save us! Ye're killed the two o' ye! What happened ye at all? Woa, gerr'l, woa, gerrlie! Ye'd say she knew me, the crayture."
When they came to the notary's door, the man called out in a very respectful manner, 'Woa then' intimating that if he might venture to express a wish, it would be that they stopped there.
Not only that the sparrows noisily criticized his work, and the chestnuts scornfully whisked their tails under his nose, but the harrows also objected, and resisted at every little stone or clod of earth. The tired horses continually stumbled, and when Slimak cried 'Woa, my lads! and they went on, the harrows again resisted and pulled them back.
Suiting the action to the word Ike pulled one rein; but Basket kept steadily on, and Ike pulled harder. But though Ike pulled till he drew the horse's head round so that he could look at us, the legs went on in the same track, and we did not even get near the side of the road. "He knows it ain't right to stop here," growled Ike. "Woa, will yer! What a obstin't hammer-headed old buffler it is!
"Woa, steady!" he muttered, addressing the ladder which for a second swayed beneath him "Woa, I sez! This ain't no billowy ocean with wot they calls an underground swell! So the ice 'ave broke, 'ave it!
"Here I am, pickaninny!" retorted Miss Vere holding him fast in this novel embrace, amid the laughter of the supers. "You're getting as blind as Tommy! Steady, steady now, donkey! steady woa!" And in a thrice she stood upright, one foot planted firmly on each of his shoulders.
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