You will then return to Wady Halfa, and there remain two hours to suspect the Camel Corps, including the grooming of the beasts, and the bazaar before returning, so I wish you a very happy good-night.
He strolled off to where the old negro gunner was grooming his camel and waiting for his reply.
It had been explained to them that each one should attend the grooming of his or her own horse.
Dad says we're to do our own grooming and white ones have to be washed just like a poodle dog and--" began Leslie.
Leslie, laughing now and eager to watch the inexperienced "fat boy" make his first attempt at grooming a spirited beast.
Hurriedly throwing on their coats--for they had discarded nothing more when they turned in on the previous night--they ran down the steps to the stables, where they found other men at work busily grooming their animals.
The grooming lasted for an hour, and towards 7 o'clock the Lieutenant of the Week turned up and gave orders for the horses to be taken to the watering-tanks.
For Selinda had been a lady's maid in great houses, and also had a mania for grooming herself with the minute and thorough devotion of a pedigreed cat.
Selinda, enraptured by her own efficiency in grooming and attiring the girl, marched behind her, unable to detach herself from her own handiwork.
It would be nice," he began, "if I didn't have to be grooming these horses so much.
At the barn they found Fergus grooming Tom and Jerry.
They are careless in grooming him, and someone, I can't find out which man, is not treating him kindly.
A sudden slap when grooming him, a shout if he does not step around briskly, or even a blow on his muzzle with the curry-comb.
For this let well-known steeds of best breed and graced with auspicious marks be yoked to my car, after causing their thirst to be slaked and after grooming them duly!
The young owner did the same, only watching him closely to learn the art of grooming from a past-master of the craft.
He set about grooming the horse with the enthusiasm of a boy, and the horse after the first inquisitive investigation of his new attendant, made with eye and nose, gave himself up to his care.
I am no more surprised than one in a dream, to find it a week-day afternoon by the time I have crossed thither from the circus-men grooming their piebalds.
When grooming the horse, the foot should be cleaned with a foot-hook and washed with clean water.
Grooming the infected animal should be discontinued.
In boarding-school I was perfectly aware that I was being given the best grooming that we could afford.
Strelsa's upper lip curled faintly, then the happy expression returned, and she watched the decorating of Molly until the maid turned her out in the perfection of grooming from crown to toe.
He took to grooming himself, and off and on spent hours brushing his ears and licking his coat, especially the snow-white fur on his belly, which had looked so ghostly as his mother bore him through the dusk.
The horses took their final grooming with coltish impatience, and devoured their grain in blissful ignorance of the sufferings in store for them.
The men are grooming their horses; the tap of the curry-comb and the impatient pawing of hoofs is music in the clear, crisp, bracing air.
As Chris remarked, all that would be necessary was an hour's work in the morning grooming their horses.
I went along too, feeling as light as a feather after my good grooming and vacuum cleaning.
When he finished grooming me he smiled as I went in and nosed over the hay in my rack.
It is a pity that the hard-working dog of the shepherd does not receive the attention in the way of feeding and grooming that is bestowed on the ornamental show dog.
The gentle art of grooming is not to be taught by theory.
The undercoat should be a waterproof pile, when not removed by grooming or season.
Grooming is an important detail in a breed whose picturesqueness depends so largely on the profuseness of their shaggy coats, but there is a general tendency to overdo it.
All dogs with long or wire-hair or rough coats naturally require more attention, and more grooming than those with short smooth coats.
The groomingkeeps the skin clean and healthy, and frequent washing, even for a white dog, is not necessary.
Then he reached up for the little row of grooming implements and took them down one by one.
When it came to grooming the mud was caked thick on all hides.
There was but little rest, however, as everybody was kept busy caring for the horses and mules; watering, feeding and grooming being in order.
Gun drill for the cannoneers andgrooming for the drivers occupied the mornings.
Here we stayed four days, visiting the city of Neufchateau, bathing in the river, and grooming and grazing the horses.
Grooming seemed a hopeless task, so far as looks were concerned.
The washing and grooming of hounds is, I think, a point in the kennel not sufficiently thought of.
The grooming of sporting dogs, especially of setters and retrievers is most important, and cleanliness, assisted by a good disinfectant, will be found after all the chief element in kennel management.
In the morning, after grooming his horse, he went into the barrack-yard, when the troop formed up for dismounted drill.
The recruit turned away and occupied himself in groominghis horse.
Then came the careful grooming of their mounts, then a dip in the cool waters, then smoking tins of soldier coffee and sizzling slips of bacon.
He stopped in the courtyard to speak to Nastasio, who was busily grooming a grey mare.
