At such moments, when the wind cut his eyes so as to make the tears spring from them, when the saddle had become burning hot, when the galled and spurred
horse reared with pain, and threw behind him a shower of dust and stones, D'Artagnan, raising himself in his stirrups, and seeing nothing on the waters, nothing beneath the trees, looked up into the air like a madman.
One day, riding in the Pampas with a very respectable "estanciero," my
horse, being tired, lagged behind.
The
Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their
horses.
But at last the lieutenant's
horse refused to go on; he could not breathe; one last spur, instead of making him advance, made him fall.
As they had obtained thirty-six additional
horses by their recent traffic, Mr.
'That's a good
horse,' said Isay, with a shrewd glance at Mukhorty, and with a practised hand he tightened the loosened knot high in the
horse's bushy tail.
'Stay here and look after the
horse. I must go home and give your mother a message, but I shall be back soon.'
"Well, my Highness would like some oats," declared the
horse.
"I understand," said Jack, cheerfully "That's the kind of
horse you are now sitting on."
However, the fox bid him be of good cheer, and said, 'I will help you; lie down there, stretch yourself out quite stiff, and pretend to be dead.' The
horse did as he was told, and the fox went straight to the lion who lived in a cave close by, and said to him, 'A little way off lies a dead
horse; come with me and you may make an excellent meal of his carcase.' The lion was greatly pleased, and set off immediately; and when they came to the
horse, the fox said, 'You will not be able to eat him comfortably here; I'll tell you what--I will tie you fast to his tail, and then you can draw him to your den, and eat him at your leisure.'
The Nez Perces, the Flatheads, and the Hanging-ears pride themselves upon the number of their
horses, of which they possess more in proportion than any other of the mountain tribes within the buffalo range.
Snodgrass, when the
horse had executed this manoeuvre for the twentieth time.
