Highways and HorsesChapman and Hall, limited, 1888 - 471 pages |
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... started ; but if , in the charge of a careful and conscientious groom , he be well fed , well groomed , and well cared for , his happiness may possibly return , although he is too fatigued to allow it to be apparent by any outward and ...
... started ; but if , in the charge of a careful and conscientious groom , he be well fed , well groomed , and well cared for , his happiness may possibly return , although he is too fatigued to allow it to be apparent by any outward and ...
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... started off again in high spirits at half - past six o'clock next morning , very much delighted to be by ourselves , and disposed to enjoy even the roughest journey . " In the heavily - timbered districts of Canada and the United States ...
... started off again in high spirits at half - past six o'clock next morning , very much delighted to be by ourselves , and disposed to enjoy even the roughest journey . " In the heavily - timbered districts of Canada and the United States ...
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... started except once a month . Of course the roads were beset with highwaymen . In those days the people in one part of Great Britain knew very little about those occupying another part ; the South of England to North countrymen was like ...
... started except once a month . Of course the roads were beset with highwaymen . In those days the people in one part of Great Britain knew very little about those occupying another part ; the South of England to North countrymen was like ...
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... started as a road - maker . When executing a portion of this road , he sent in his tender for the erection of a bridge at Boroughbridge ; it was accepted , and he completed the work within the stipulated time , and in a satisfactory ...
... started as a road - maker . When executing a portion of this road , he sent in his tender for the erection of a bridge at Boroughbridge ; it was accepted , and he completed the work within the stipulated time , and in a satisfactory ...
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... started from the Three Tuns , ' in Aldgate , close to Mrs. Nelson's . " This coach went down to Brighton on the opening day of Parliament with a copy of the King's Speech in three hours and forty minutes ; this was at the rate of ...
... started from the Three Tuns , ' in Aldgate , close to Mrs. Nelson's . " This coach went down to Brighton on the opening day of Parliament with a copy of the King's Speech in three hours and forty minutes ; this was at the rate of ...
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Page 356 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor , or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, Above or below, or within or without, And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Page 357 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown . — " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T" make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Page 357 - ... em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he 'put her through.
Page 274 - I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Page 190 - Hobson kept a stable of forty good cattle, always ready and fit for travelling: but when a man came for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there was great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door: so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance, and every horse ridden with the same justice: from whence it became a proverb, when what ought to be your election was forced upon you to say
Page 299 - Clouds too ! And a mist upon the Hollow! Not a dull fog that hides it, but a light airy gauze-like mist, which in our eyes of modest admiration gives a new charm to the beauties it is spread before: as real gauze has done ere now, and would again, so please you, though we were the Pope.
Page 358 - Huddup!" said the parson — Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill. — First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill — And the parson was sitting upon a rock, At half-past nine by the meet'n'-house clock — • Just the hour of the Earthquake shock ! — What do you think the parson found,...
Page 299 - The beauty of the night is hardly felt, when Day comes leaping up. Yoho ! Two stages, and the country roads are almost changed to a continuous street. Yoho, past marketgardens, rows of houses, villas, crescents, terraces, and squares; past...
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