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"You had better drive as directly as you can to the Hotel Pless," Kirkwood called up. "I'm afraid it's no use pushing your horse like this." "I'm sure of it, sir. 'E's a good 'oss, 'e is, but 'e carn't keep goin' for hever, you know, sir." "I know. You've done very well; you've done your best." "Very good, sir. The Pless, you said, sir? Right." The trap closed.
"I know he was, sir; but he ain't now; he was pisined; but I've a trick with a 'oss that'll set that sort o' thing if it ain't gone too far, that is to say right in a brace of shakes. I doctored him; he's hisself agen; he'll take you till he drops." The King thrust his noble head closer in his master's bosom, and made a little murmuring noise, as though he said, "Try me!" "God bless you, Rake!"
An' I 'adn't much time to waste neither, for I knew there was Kafirs all about, an' the troops was gettin' a'ead of me, an' my 'oss was tied to a yellow-wood tree at the foot o' the kloof, an' I began to feel sort o' skeery with the gloomy thickets all around, an' rugged precipices lookin' as if they'd tumble on me, an' the great mountains goin' up to 'eaven oh! I can tell you it was it was "
'I've an unkimmon nice oss, at length observed Mr.
'I know'd that oss when Lord Bullfrog had him, nodding his head at our old friend as he spoke. 'The deuce you did! observed Mr. Waffles; where was that? 'In Leicestersheer, replied Mr. Buckram. 'I have a haunt as lives at Mount Sorrel; she has a little hindependence of her own, and I goes down 'casionally to see her in fact, I believes I'm her hare.
His worship was gawky, flustered, and uncertain, and listened like a scared rabbit to mine host, a man of much talk, who explained proudly what was to be done. "This is 'im, y'r worship," he said. "A dirty 'oss-thief as badly wants 'anging. Copped in the act, y'r worship, of riding into this 'ere yard o' mine, as big as bull-beef, sitting on the very 'oss 'e'd stolen from his lordship 'ere."
Next they found a wounded artillery horse which had been turned loose from his battery. He was hitched in, and Si and Shorty were laid on the layer of ammunition-boxes which still covered the bottom of the bed. "Who'll drive the bloody team?" growled Wat. "Hi never druv a 'oss hin my life. 'Ere, Barney, you get hin the saddle." "Not Oi," answered Barney.
Thus, presently, Barnabas rode on between them down the hill, looking from one to the other, but saying very little, because his heart was so full. "And this be the 'oss you wrote us about hey, Barnabas lad?" inquired Natty Bell, stepping back and viewing 'The Terror' over with an eye that took in all his points. "Ha a fine action, lad "
Sponge, making hup his mind on the moment, jist as he makes hup his mind to ride at a fence not that I think it's a good plan for a gent to show that he's sweet on an oss, for they're sure to make him pay for it. Howsomever, that's nouther here nor there. Well, jist as Mr.
Some of the men cut wood and piled it outside the door; the women folks assisted Oss with breakfast which was cooked in the fireplace; for he had not yet reached the luxury of a cook stove, which would have to be "fetched in" over sixty miles of mountain roads and would cost a tidy sum besides.
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