If you were to ask me," he would say, "I should say Blinders is straight.
Remembering the legal obstacles put in the path of "Mrs. Warren's Profession," I could not help wondering whether the Comstockians wear blinders that shut from their view everything East and West of Broadway.
But take them two together and there is no blinders equal to 'em.
Mr. Graham added that Barclay and Perkins, the great brewers of London, who own hundreds of horses, have forbidden the use of blinders or binding reins on any of their animals.
Illustration: 0090] "I at once made up my mind that if he could see the objects which worried him we should get along better together, so I determined that I would take the blinders off the next time he went in harness.
Now I want to ask why horses are made to wear blinders in harness, when they don't wear them while under the saddle!
The blinderscontribute to this, and so far from being a preventive are a provocative of fright.
Not only did George and Charley declare that they would never use blinders or check-reins on their horses, but they chorussed the evils of the old practice to their young friends, several of whom were induced to follow their example.
If blinders were necessary to prevent horses from being frightened, why not use them on saddle horses; and the fact that they are never so used, disposes of the whole argument in their favor.
Check-reins and blinders formed no part of the pretty creature's harness, and he seemed to appreciate his freedom from those abominations of modern custom.
Year by year the disuse of blinders increases, and we may hope for the day when they will be practically given up.
But the great mass with huge blinders drawn tight over their eyes, blunder on in the dark, their drivers and owners utterly unconscious of the wrong they are doing or the misery they are unconsciously inflicting.
The subject of check-reins and blinders having been disposed of, Charley's next question referred to the use of the whip in riding or driving, and the spur in riding.
If you insist that I wear blinders so that I cannot see behind me, as it was intended I should, I pray you to be careful that the blinders stand well out from my eyes.
I told him that every dark night he came from Sudbury I thought of the deep ditch alongside the road, and wished his horses hadn't blinders on.
The horses did act rather queerly at first, and started a little; but they soon got over it, and now they go as steady without blinders as they ever did with them.
I had a picnic last Monday," he said; "father let me cut all theblinders off our head-stalls with my penknife.
Has any boy done anything about blinders and check-reins?
The blinders are there and he can't see that he has passed it, and he can't turn his head to have a good look at it.
They were two powerful black horses, and as they had no blinders on, they could see us coming.
I'd like to see the man that would persuade me to put blinders or check-reins or any other instrument of torture on my horses.
He says that the worst thing against blinders is that a frightened horse never knows when he has passed the thing that scared him.
Blinders imagined to be lashing, even then, at the prick of the goad.
Blinders has certainly had the last dig, but his principal victim fails this time to wince or bellow under the point of his humour.
Blinders had appended an italicised comment: "His Honour considers the above sketch-plan remarkably faithful.
Blinders as a correct one, but though her love was blind to his pimples and ignored his stumpiness, she could not deny the spectacles, which were to her as peepholes affording visions of a blissful married future.
Blinders have liked to have kept that hundred and fifty, but his fear had proved greater than his desire.
Blinders briskly held up five stumpy red fingers and tucked down the thumb and little finger, leaving a trio of mute witnesses to the correctness of his arithmetic.
Miss Woodhull is not at home and Miss Stetson was too busy trying to find out where the horses had lost their blinders to tell us not to take the road to Kilton Hall.
Do you think for a moment that I, the chairman of the Republican State Committee, am going into a convention with blinders on?
That would have been an argument once, when I was a wheel-horse with my political blinders on; it has been an argument that has kept a good many decent men from doing their duty.
Looking at the larva's head, we are reminded somewhat of that of a horse who has got blinders over his eyes, and a nose-bag over his nose, and partly up his cheeks.
Now suppose the two blinders thrown back on each side, then conceive that the lower part of the face which we have supposed covered with a nose-bag were to be uncovered, we should then see the following curious contrivance.
December report, and reading as follows: "Tests have been made upon Hans with blinders over his eyes and it is to be noted that, in spite of these, he still responds correctly.
There is not a shadow of a doubt that this increase in the movement's extent was entirely unintentional, since the horse could not see his master at all on account of the blinders which had been attached to the trappings.
The horse failed again whenever he was prevented by means of sufficiently large blinders from seeing the persons, and especially the questioner, to whom the solution was known.
This last was nicely illustrated in the case of two carriage horses supplied with large blinders and held with a loose rein, and hitched to a landau.
Blinders were applied, and it is worthy of mention that Hans made no attempt to resist.
The tests with the blindersshowed that Hans was lost as soon as his questioner was out of his view, but responded adequately the moment the questioner was in sight.
A total of 102 tests were made in which large blinders were used.
Such unequivocal results, however, were only obtained after we had provided blinders of sufficient size (15 x 15 centimeters).
They loomed large and distorted before us, and the old gentleman explained to me that he never had blinders on the horses excepting when they were riding beside the wall.
He had tried riding without the blinders one day, but his horse had bolted in fright, and he had great difficulty in getting him inside again.
The running gear of a great concern like the Household Emporium pressed, in the days of Peter's apprenticeship, unequally at times on its employees, and the galled spot of the canned goods department was Blinders the bundle boy.
Even Blinders could not recall, in the three years he had been bundle boy, so marked an example of favouritism.
Blinders declared on oath that he had not on Christmas Eve the slightest suspicion of the horrid tragedy which had taken place in the Silent House during the time he was on duty.
They may have come into the square during the day, when Blinders was not on duty.
You must put blinders on your eyes to shut out all the other atoms.
It used to be discouraging until I pretended I hadblinders on my eyes and began with the nursery table.
She seldom did wrong, in her own opinion, because the moment she entertained an idea it at once became right, her vanity serving as a pair of blinders to keep her from seeing the truth.
The landscapes Van Twiller painted in the dark, or when he had his blinders on, can't be worth very much," insisted Gilbert.
