قراءة كتاب Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle
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HORSES NINE STORIES OF HARNESS AND SADDLE BY SEWELL FORD ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1905 |
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Copyright, 1903, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published, March, 1903 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK |
Contents
| SKIPPER | 1 | |
| Being the Biography of a Blue-Ribboner | ||
| CALICO | 31 | |
| Who Travelled with a Round Top | ||
| OLD SILVER | 67 | |
| A Story of the Gray Horse Truck | ||
| BLUE BLAZES | 95 | |
| And the Marring of Him | ||
| CHIEFTAIN | 125 | |
| A Story of the Heavy Draught Service | ||
| BARNACLES | 155 | |
| Who Mutinied for Good Cause | ||
| BLACK EAGLE | 181 | |
| Who Once Ruled the Ranges | ||
| BONFIRE | 213 | |
| Broken for the House of Jerry | ||
| PASHA | 241 | |
| The Son of Selim | ||
Illustrations
By Frederic Dorr Steele and L. Maynard Dixon
| By one desperate leap he shook himself clear. (Page 263.) | Frontispiece |
| Facing Page | |
| There were many heavy wagons. | 6 |
| For many weary months Skipper pulled that crazy cart. | 24 |
| He would do his best to steady them down to the work. | 130 |
| Then let him snake a truck down West Street. | 144 |
| "Come, boy. Come, Pasha," insisted the man on the ground. | 266 |
| Mr. Dave kept his seat in the saddle more by force of muscular habit than anything else. | 268 |
At the age of six Skipper went on the force. Clean of limb and sound of wind he was, with not a blemish from the tip of his black tail to the end of his crinkly forelock. He had been broken to saddle by a Green Mountain boy who knew more of horse nature than of the trashy things writ in books. He gave Skipper kind words and an occasional friendly pat on the flank. So Skipper's disposition was sweet and his nature a trusting one.
This is why Skipper learned so soon the ways of the city. The first time he saw one of those little wheeled houses, all windows and full of people, come rushing down the street with a fearful whirr and clank of bell, he wanted to bolt. But the man on his back spoke in an easy, calm voice, saying, "So-o-o! There, me b'y. Aisy wid ye. So-o-o!" which was excellent advice, for the queer