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They were turned loose in the street without bridle or any other harness with the exception of a surcingle, from the sides of which hung like tassels, steel balls, with sharp, needle-like points projecting from their surface that served to prick and goad the animals to a frenzy of speed.
The saddle should be kept in its place by the elastic webbing girths, and not, as the common error is probably from the facility of tightening it by the hard, unyielding, leather surcingle.
In his mouth he champed solid silver bits, and his polished hoofs were rimmed with nickel-plated shoes. The heavy bridle reins were covered with the finest white kid, as was the surcingle which completed his trappings. Rather stout had Calico become in these halcyon days. His back and flanks were like the surface of a well-upholstered sofa.
Then we put a roller on them a broad surcingle that goes round the horse's body and the boys jump on them and canter round, holding on to the roller, or standing up, lying down, and doing tricks till the horse gets used to it." "Well?" "Well, you give 'em a couple of hours of it, perhaps, and then dry them and feed them, and give them a spell, and then bring them out again.
I have none of my own to look after yet, but help the others. "At 4.30 or five 'Prepare for water' sounds. You put a bridoon on one horse, and, if you are luxurious, a blanket and surcingle to sit on, lead the other, and form up in a line; then 'file right' is the order, and you march off to the watering place, wearing any sort of costume you please. And very slight and negligé some of them are.
Abdullah went slowly toward his own tent. He stopped a moment by one of the lame camels. "Thou broughtest her to me," he said, and he eased the beast's surcingle by a dozen holes. He reached his tent, paused, faced the western horizon, lifted his arms, breathed in the sweet, cool air of the desert, and entered.
For he did not want any witness to his secret explorations of the forest and the hills. An elephant, when used as a beast of burden or for shooting from in thick jungle, carries on its back only a "pad" a heavy, straw-stuffed mattress reaching from neck to tail and fastened on by a rope surcingle passing round the body.
Taking the robe from my shoulders, I spread it over the back of my horse; and employing a piece of the laryette as a surcingle, I bound it fast. Into the improvised saddle I mounted the girl, from a rock, leaping upon the croup behind me. "You, Wolf!" cried she, apostrophising the dog; "you stay here by the game, and guard it from the coyotes. Remember! rascal! not a mouthful till I return.
He looked like a grizzly bear in bad repair. He had an old fur cap on his head that concealed his ears and most of his face. He wore a ragged coat that was generally gray, but had white lines along the seams. Under this he wore another coat still more ragged, and the whole was belted at the waist with an old surcingle.
His comrades followed after him picking up now one stone and now another; but Calandrino had not gone far before he had his bosom full of stones; wherefore, gathering up the skirts of his grown, which was not cut Flanders fashion, he tucked them well into his surcingle all round and made an ample lap thereof.
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