Joe asked him if he had seen Nell's foal anywhere that day.
Illustration: MARE AND FOAL At Llandilo] Notwithstanding this reinforcement of his aristocracy, there were too many doors left carelessly open.
From the oldest mare to the youngest foal they seemed to have one speed afoot.
His life had been the bitterness of captivity since Cordova took in part payment of a drunken gambling debt a sickly foalout of an old thoroughbred mare.
The foal kept the girl busy, for the old mare died, and Boy had to bring up the little creature by hand.
When she returned with the bottle, the barrow was empty, and the foal lay quiet on a heap of brown grass in the corner.
The girl herself never referred to the point; but were reference made to it, she winced like a foal at the touch of the branding-iron.
The foal repeated its ungainly efforts, whimpering in a deep and muffled voice, like the wind in a cave.
He grunted in his wife's ear: "Chap said she's in foal to Berserker.
He thought the foal was a new kind of dog and a rival.
The foal stood a moment in the barrow, then it collapsed, lying like a calf with a woolly tail, its long legs projecting over the side.
As soon as the foal began to find his legs Boy took him out into the Paddock Close, and later on to the Downs.
And once this was understood the relations between the foal and the dog were established on a sound basis, while Maudie watched with a sardonic smile.
I swear by my troth thus shall it be, Thyself shalt be the foalfor me.
Mony a time I rade wi my brown foal The water o Wearie's Wells.
All were in a quiver of expectation; and knowing that, Jesus Christ originates this scene by His act of sending the two disciples into the village over against them, to 'bring the ass, and the colt the foal of an ass.
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
That is the Christ who came into Jerusalem on the colt the foal of an ass.
And the answer he gave was: "I think it no more foolish to be fishing on dry land than to believe that a foal would belong to a garran.
And if a woman that was carrying was to put a basket of green flax on her back, the child would go from her; and if a mare that was infoal had a load of flax on her, the foal would go the same way.
Now, at that time there was a man had a mare that had a foal in a field; and in the field next it there was an old garran; and there was a little stream that made the mering between the two fields.
And the foal took a habit of crossing over the stream to the other field where the garran was; and it got to be so friendly with him, and so fond of him, that at last it was hardly it would come back at all.
And they did that, and the foal followed the garran, and it was given to the owner.
Sometimes a likely foal is sent to a training stable, and cracked up as something wonderful.
When the foal is first born, it is turned loose into the paddock; and if his mother don't give him enough milk, the cow makes up the deficiency.
Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the vine.
Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of her that is used to the yoke.
The mare allowed herself to be fondled, but the little foal was very wild and cantered away when they tried to stroke him.
I shouldn't be surprised now if he was to be a foal of Spitfire," he said.
Suddenly she uttered a joyous whinny and started off down the field, the little foalat her heels, the long manes of both flying in the wind.
Patsy, chewing a straw, offered the opinion that Magda's foal was the best of the lot.
Don't be timid like Eileen, who screams if a foal trots up to her, and is afraid even of Shot.
The three wandered on from one mare and foal to another.
The foal which eats the oats is that which was foaled in the morning; the foal which eats the wheat is that which was foaled at noon; and the foal which eats the barley is that which was foaled at night.
Further on they crossed another plain, where the grass was thick and green, but on it were feeding a foal and its mother, so lean that you could have counted their ribs.
This time they passed over a plain so bare that a pin could not have lain there unnoticed, yet Covan beheld with surprise a foal and its mother feeding there, both as fat as if they had pastured on the richest grass.
And there's no better or steadier flyer than King George, first foal to my mare Majesty.
Lawn Dyarrig shook the bridle, and a dirty, shaggy littlefoal came and put its head in the bridle.
The foal brought Lawn Dyarrig out by another way to the upper world, and took him to Erin.
At the end of the year, to a day, Boots came back again to the hill, and there were the seven wild mares at graze, and again each had a well-grown foal beside her.
He reached it before his shoes were worn out, and there were the seven wild mares grazing hither and thither, and each one had a foal with her.
The washerman thought that here was a rare chance, for he happened to have the foal of the ass that carried his bundles of clothes, which, since he had no child, he should get the learned mullah to change into a boy.
Luckily she had met the ass and her foal on the road, so the amount of mischief done by her stupid spouse in her absence was not so great, all things considered.
Thus thinking, he goes next day to the mullah, and asks him to admit his foal into his school, in order that it should be changed into the human form and nature.
You appear to forget that you are the foal of one of my asses, that I got changed into a man, for the fee of a hundred rupis, by a learned mullah who transforms asses into educated men.
The foal was so active that it kept up with the horses on this day's journey.
With them I will send an Expedition horse and the foal that was dropped near the Gulf of Carpentaria, which I dare say the Royal Society will sell me to take to Queensland as a relic of my expedition.
But the little fellow was too tired to keep his eyes any longer open, and when he next opened them it was morning, and he found himself lying wedged in between a mare and her young foal lying side by side close together.
With a vigorous kick he sent the foal away, and forced Martin to take his place, and, to make it easier for him, pressed the teat into his mouth.
A young foal and an old horse draw not well together.
It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
