Once he could reach the cob, take off the hobbles which confined its forefeet, tighten the girths, and slip the bit between its teeth, he did not care.
Long before he could get down by the cob's forelegs to loosen the hobbles from its fetlocks, and mount.
He soon caught sight of his horse which had strayed a mile lower down the river-bed, and in spite of his hobbles had crossed one ugly stream that my father dared not ford on foot.
He also took with him a pair of hobbles and a small hatchet.
Till he gums soft food and hobbles with a stick because the years have warped his back and his legs, Casey Ryan will keep that indefinable, bubbling optimism of spiritual youth.
After that Casey wore hobbles on his feet, and was secretly rather proud of the fact that they considered him so dangerous as all that.
At last I saw by the movements of those near me that they were becoming somewhat uneasy, and presently two which had got to a distance came up as fast as their hobbles would allow them, the whole heading towards the camp.
I rushed forward to cut the hobbles as fast as I could get up to the animals, when they all set off in the direction they had before been going.
I sat leaning against the wheel in a scanty strip of shade, making a pair of hobbles to replace those which my contumacious steed Pontiac had broken the night before.
Once in the background, he heels a small hole in the earth, turns the contents of his hand into it, methodically fills the hole up, and hobbles back with his squad.
If he spots two of us comin' he's like to git excited and mebby bust his hobbles and light out.
His horse was gone; it had been stolen, or had worked out of sight, or had broken the hobbles and made off.
Then the Indian gave Shefford the bridle of the horse, and made signs that appeared to indicate the horse had broken his hobbles and strayed.
I went on ahead to look for a spot, and returning, met the horses in hobbles going up the creek, some right in the bed.
When I released our three from the hobbles this morning, they immediately pretended to feed; but this old ruse has been experienced before, and time was now up, to move on again.
Robinson got the horse at last at the plain, and I took special care to find a pair of hobbles for him for this night at all events.
Not hobbling the horses in general, we had some difficulty in finding a pair of hobbles for each, and not being able to do so, I left one in the mob without.
The following morning we found the camels had decamped, in consequence of their having had long hobbles allowed them, as we did not suppose they would ramble away from such splendid herbage and water.
We left the Rock on the 23rd, but only going four miles for a start, we let the horses go back without hobbles to feed for the night.
But Alec Ross was a right smart chance of a young bushman, and I knew that nothing would prevent him from getting the animals so long as their hobbles held.
All the horses which had escaped in hobbles the other night now came to water, and were put through the pass again.
He danced like he had hind hobbles on; and he had a vocabulary of about three hundred and fifty words that he made stretch over four germans a week, and plagiarized from to get him through two ice-cream suppers and a Sunday-night call.
At first the horse tried to kick and plunge, but the hobbles held him fast and in fifteen minutes he settled to the work.
He hobbles his pony at a distance of three or four hundred yards, gets down on his hands and knees, and throws the dogskin over his shoulders.
Then the Mongol removed the hobbles from the hind legs, and later left the pony entirely free.
She stooped and set a pair of hobblesabout the tired creature's pasterns, and, leaving him to his own devices, set off to ascertain her whereabouts.
In a moment she had unbuckled the hobbles on his forelegs.
So the Signal party leans up ag'in the front of the post-office an' surveys his hobbles mighty melancholy, while Tutt goes over to the Red Light to look up Texas Thompson.
I'm goin' to break you of them hurdy-gurdy tendencies, if I has to make you wearhobbles an' frale the duds off your back besides.
With slit ribbons of his shirt whipping the air he hops and hobbles round the table, with trousers down at heels, chased by Ades of Magdalen with the tailor's shears.
He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely.
She trips over the mountains when she is young: when she is young and slender she comes and dances before us: and when she is old and unshapely she hobblesaway from the hills.
We give him a small remuneration, whereupon he repeats a few more cheering words and hobbles out at the door again.
Having pronounced these words she hastily hobbles away again on her crutches.
This atrocious fetter is supplemented with leather pads, sometimes daubed with tar, and the horse hobbles to his task.
Hobbles and bell should also be carried on this animal.
Hobbles may be made as cowboys make them from rope.
This will be the first animal unpacked, and while the other animals are being unpacked the cook may get busy, and the packer will have hobbles and bell at hand to immediately attach to the animals.
There should be a pair of hobbles for each animal, and a blind to put upon obstreperous pack animals when slinging and lashing the load.
After an early breakfast we gave the horses as much water as they chose to drink, and removing their hobbles gave them full liberty to range where they liked.
After proceeding eleven miles along the coast, I halted, and Wylie came up a little before dark, bringing the hobbles with him.
About ten we got a little better, and packing up our things, moved away, but had scarcely gone more than a couple of miles along the beach, when I discovered that the horse-hobbles had been left behind.
As soon as he disappears Addie hobbles out eagerly, and looks around.
She hobbles up the little garden path and pushes open the farm-house door.
It may, however, be necessary to put hobbles on the hind limbs to prevent the mare from kicking.
When the animal moves, the toe only is placed to the ground or the foot is carried and the patient hobbles along on three legs.
If a mare is inclined to kick, it may be necessary to apply hobbles to protect the operator.
Monday morning she hobbles up on a stick--limping and looking sick.
