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Been about six others here already." The blood leaped in Andrew, and then ran coldly back to his heart. Could they have outridden the gelding to such an extent as that? "From Tomo?" he asked. "Tomo? No. They come down from Gunter City, up yonder, and Twin Falls." And Andrew understood. Well indeed had Hal Dozier fulfilled his threat of rousing the mountains against this quarry.
"Speak to thy offer!" interrupted the other, who evidently wished to shorten the interview. "Restore the girl, and take five-and-twenty thin pieces." "Half-price for a Flemish gelding! La Belle would blush, with honest pride, did she know her value in the market!" "Extortion and bowels of compassion! Let it be a hundred, and no further words between us." "Harkee, Mr.
He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to give the gelding his head and go at a jarring trot most of the day. On the fourth and fifth days, however, he had the reward for his caution. The chestnut's ribs were beginning to show painfully, but he kept doggedly at his work with no sign of faltering.
"On the 9th of October next will be run for upon Coleshill-heath, in Warwickshire, a plate of six guineas value, three heats, by any horse, mare, or gelding that hath not won above the value of 5 pounds, the winning horse to be sold for 10 pounds, to carry 10 stone weight, if 14 hands high; if above or under, to carry or be allowed weight for inches, and to be entered Friday, the 5th, at the Swan in Coleshill, before six in the evening.
Billy was helped in, Silas was liberally thanked, and they drove away beneath the stars, leaving behind them golden opinions, and a host who decided not to disturb his helpmate by retiring to rest in their conjugal bed. Bertie had forgotten, but the playful gelding had not.
It was a gelding out of the loins of the north wind and sired by the devil himself, and its spirit was one with the spirit of Jerry Strann; perhaps because they both served one master. The cavalcade came with a crash of racing hoofs in a cloud of dust.
Then, always deferential, he sat down in the sitting room and watched a couple of prettily striped coats hanging in a half-open closet. At that moment the black gelding was flirtatiously crossing the drawbridge over the Charles on the Allston Road. The gelding knew the clank of those suspending chains and the slight unsteadiness of the meeting halves of the bridge as well as it knew oats.
All from the moste to the leaste, as well the women as the menne: doe ride either vpon Geldynges, or Kien, where so euer thei become. For stoned Horses thei occupie none, ne yet Gelding that is a striker, and lighte of his heles. Their bridelles are trimmed with muche gold, siluer, and precious stones.
"Just how much trouble are you going to make about the seal misunderstanding?" demanded Johns-Eaton. "Well," replied Enoch, with a wide smile, "I have a new gelding I'd like to try out, to-morrow morning. If you'll join me at seven-thirty on that rack of bones you call a bay mare, I'll tell you all I know." "You will, like thunder!" laughed Johns-Eaton.
With ears flattened against his head, eyes green with malignity and pain, lips curled back and teeth bared to the gums, he charged directly at the unbalanced roan, squealing fiendishly as he came. The gallant gelding floundered ineffectually for a footing, fell directly in the path of the infuriated beast, and threw his rider over his head.
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