A native rides one deer and leads a pack train of any number up to a dozen, the halter of one being fastened to the tail of his predecessor.
The one that he rides is guided by a halter around the neck, and a line which is fastened to the nose in case the animal is without horns.
He seems a part of yourself; he is your better half, your 'halter hego' as I heard a cockney once call his fancy gall.
We must avoid this bad grammar by using a different form of words: as, 'We are to be prevented from obtaining our rights by neither the halter nor the bayonets.
We must not say: 'Neither the halter nor the bayonets are sufficient to prevent us from obtaining our rights.
If you put an old, worn strap on him, or a fraying rope which he can break, he will just as likely as not become a halter and bridle breaker.
What fun it is to slip a halter on a calf to-day and let him get accustomed to it; to-morrow lead him about a little with coaxing.
A rope may be knotted round his neck and worn for a day or two, or a rope halter put over the head; something that slips on easily so that you don't have to hold the youngster's head.
When he emerged he bore in one hand an ordinary rope halter, with a noose at one end, just such a halter as was used by all the farmers for securing their horses to their stalls.
And when my young men have given my father the halter of that colt, he will lead him by a crooked path to the grave of Hard-Heart?
But while that woman still schemes how to rescue from hulks or halter that execrable man, who shall say that he is without a chance?
The fellow had tied the halter rein around a sapling about two feet from the ground, and was now preparing to deal the horse a blow with the axe between its eyes.
An inveterate horse thief:--Throw a halter in his grave and he'll start up and steal a horse.
Then the doctor knotted the horse's halter to the back of the trap, and galloped on to the settlement.
Sandor, while the runaway let him catch it easily enough by the halter still knotted to its head.
Then there is the expense of a system which does not reform nor get rid of the thief--in old days gaol fever did the latter when the halter failed--but merely hoards him up for a while to turn him loose on society more wolfish than ever.
The halter with which a criminal has been hanged has much power and brings luck.
Saturday, I saw Mary Fulcher with a halter round her neck, led about by a man, who offered to sell her for eighteen- pence.
The wretched brute had fallen on his knees, his neck stretched quite straight as his halter to the camel ahead took the strain.
Whenever the path was sufficiently broad I noticed that an Arab would take hold of his halter to steady him.
He was dragged bodily forward for a few inches on the smooth rock, then the halter "parted", and his neck curved again.
From his quarters stretched taut the halter of the camel "next astern", and another supercilious, scornful, ugly head appeared.
In England, wives are still occasionally led to the market by a halter around the neck to be sold by the husband to the highest bidder.
Transportation had now been adopted as a secondary punishment, and numbers who escaped the halter were congregated in Newgate waiting removal beyond the seas.
