I can afford you a pony as well as Mr. Paine can afford to buy William one.
Here he soon received a call from Halbert, who informed him, with great elation, that Mr. Paine knew of a desirable pony which could be had on the same terms as his son's.
He was out, however, when the packet reached my hands; and while the pony was being harnessed, I took another look over that letter from Colonel Hunter.
He gave his wife's pony a switch, and off they dashed, she laughing merrily, and he galloping away with such ease and grace that Agatha could not take her eyes off him.
Here Harrie laughed, and gave Dunce a lash that quite discomposed his pony faculties, and made Brian scream with delight.
I waited an hour and a half--then I took the pony to see after you--and lo!
I soon wheeled round, and gallopped back again as fast as my pony could carry me: they fired at me fifty or sixty shots, not one of which touched me.
At last, as he turned a corner of the road, there was the coach; and he had just time to wheel his pony about before it was up with him.
Then as the staunch cow-pony bore him nearer and nearer to the Clinker Creek Country it gradually dawned upon him that, by so doing, he might stand a poor chance of even finding out what had puzzled his sire.
Even the cow-pony seemed enthralled with the grandeur of the scene--the wooded hills climbing shelf by shelf to the faraway mist-hung mountains; the green river winding its serpentine course far below.
You look so funny," she remarked when he at last sought her out after the pony race.
The pony under Weir came to an abrupt stop, shaking.
The engineer struck his own pony fiercely on the flank, which produced a tremendous effort in the striving beast that brought it within thirty paces or so of Sorenson.
A last spurt Weir's pony made, bringing his rider to within thirty yards of the cattleman, who glancing over his shoulder halted, swung about, fired a shot and again started to run.
He rode up to engineering headquarters on his pony one evening and carried Weir out into the open where their words would not be overheard.
Then there was another man put forward who had seen neither of the prisoners, but had seen the cart and pony at Pycroft Common, and had known that the cart and pony were for the time in the possession of the Grinder.
Of the pony and cart the old woman declared she knew nothing.
Mrs. Brownlow was in the pony carriage driving her nephew, and Walter Marrable was alone with Edith.
The effect of his shot was that the pony he had aimed at sprang forward, leaving a Boer visible, facing them in astonishment before he turned to run.
The pony now fired at reared up, and in the clear sunshine the man who was aiming across it was seen to be crushed down by the poor animal's fall, and he did not rise again.
Dickenson, for his pony stopped short, as did the others, the sergeant's mount uttering a sharp, challenging neigh and beginning to fidget.
Then the pony jerked itself free and galloped off.
No, sir: I saw the pony start," said the sergeant eagerly.
For the brute had made a snatch at my revolver, caught the lanyard, and held on, with the slip-noose tight between the collar of my jacket and my chin, and his pony cantering hard.
We'll get you into the saddle, and walk the pony home.
In one case the rider threw up his arms and, as his pony tore on, fell over sidewise, to drop with his foot tight in the stirrup, and was dragged about a hundred yards before he was freed and his mount galloped away.
As the smoke cleared away by the time the young officer had replaced the exploded cartridges, one pony could be seen struggling on the ground, another was galloping away, while two men were crawling backward on hands and knees.
The sergeant was off his pony in a moment, handing the reins to a companion, and helping the lost man to rise.
For the two men cheered on seeing the pony limp for a few yards and then fall, just beyond where his master was lying stretched out on his face.
Boers fell forward on the neck of his mount and dropped his rifle, while his frightened pony galloped on, swerving off to the right.
Now, I'll tell you straight that I have come to the conclusion that I judged you wrongly about that pony business, and that you didn't mean to brag.
He went through the introduction with immovable countenance, saw the two friends comfortably seated in the pony carriage, and called to mind a message in the village which would prevent him from joining them as he had intended.
We might perfectly well have sent his pony home with one of our own servants--he would have been delighted to walk down.
He and his pony barred the way; he had an air of leisure and of felicity; one would think we had met at an afternoon party.
I think my irritation with him about his pony rose and delivered me from the too insistent thought of him.
The pony was no longer added to the prospect; it was absorbed no doubt in the general list of attractions calculated to reconcile a young lady to a parental roof with which she had no practical acquaintance.
Dick imploringly, stroking and patting the pony nearest to him, "they're such beauties.
He returned sooner than they dared hope, with the pony saddled and bridled.
Whatever you think they would prefer, and would not that be a pony a-piece?
Liza, remembering her old ponywhich Groholsky, who did not care for riding, had bought her for a hundred roubles.
Compared with those swan-like steeds, her pony seemed to her no better than a bug.
He helped her, however, into her little pony carriage, and at parting she gave him her hand.
The pony was now the only quadruped kept for the countess's own behoof; and the young earl's hunter was the only other horse in the Desmond Court stables.
He went there first with the young earl, who, then quite a boy, had had an ugly tumble from his pony in the hunting-field.
The witnesses were sworn; Peter proved that the pony belonged to Lord Cadurcis, and that his lordship had been missing from home for several days, and was believed to have quitted the abbey on this identical pony.
Having secured the advantage of a long start, by the device of turning the key of his chamber, he repaired to the stables, and finding no one to observe him, saddled his pony and galloped away without plan or purpose.
You shall have that pony you wanted; I am sure I can manage it: I did not think I could.
The young gentleman to whom this pony belongs,' continued the gipsy, 'may or may not be a lord.
The pony is of no use to him now, and so I came to sell it for our common good.
There he is,' said Peter; and true enough there was a man in a smock-frock and mounted on the very pony which Lady Annabel had presented to Plantagenet.
Of what use is yourpony if he cannot bring you for a doctor when a child is in convulsions?
Who would not have given pony for such a feeling, even though they had never got him back again?
Now my little readers must not suppose that Mr. Armand had only made Harriet believe that pony was sold, while he really kept him for her.
I know that was very foolish in me, but I remember it all--the beautiful pony and all.
But the act on which she evidently most valued herself, was, asking to return in the carriage, and so giving up the pony to Harriet, when we were going home.
The pony is now yours, and should you choose me to sell him, the money would be yours, and I should honestly pay every cent of it to you, and you could give it to Alice if you liked.
Ressaidar Sahib, what the devil made you play that kicking pig of a pony in the last ten minutes?
I was talking to Hicksey about posting the men, and Dennis edged his ponyin between us, and said, 'What shall I do?
Without demur and without question, fast as tonga could fly or pony gallop, back to their Regiments and their Batteries, as though they were hastening to their weddings, fled the subalterns.
Twice he started toward the boy, and twice he changed his mind and returned to his pony to continue his vigil.
Therefore, when Calumet reached the edge of the wood near the front of the house he dismounted and tied his pony to a tree.
He mounted his pony and rode to the far end of the ranchhouse yard.
But she was walking toward the ranchhouse, her back to him, and he made a grimace of disappointment as he urged hispony out into the valley.
He mounted and fled, his pony running desperately, accompanied by the music of a rifle that suddenly began popping on the other side of Calumet--Dade's.
He abruptly broke off and urged his pony about, leaving the puncher to look after him speculatively.
Bringing the pony to a halt, Calumet turned in the saddle and looked somberly behind him.
Five minutes later, when he came out with the pony saddled and bridled, he found that Betty and Malcolm had gone.
He kicked hispony in the ribs and rode toward the man, the animal traveling at a slow chop-trot.
There was no use of turning his pony into the corral, for the animal had more life in him than the two forlorn beasts that were already there and would not stay in the corral when a breach in the fence offered freedom.
The pony lunged, swerved, and presented its right shoulder to the swaying reptile, its flesh quivering from excitement.
Many times during the past two days had this incident occurred, and at no time had Calumet allowed the pony to follow its inclination to bolt or swerve from the trail.
Since you will neither stay at school nor behave yourself as a young lady should when at home, I shall sell your pony and procure you a tutor who will be your teacher and guard at the same time.
Fates willed it, that her pony "Starlight" should on that eventful day cast a shoe, lame himself, and so be unfit to ride?
Step by step the old ponytrod down the steep, uneven track, and the necessity for careful driving seemed sufficient excuse for her preoccupation.
Slowly they climbed the incline, the pony slipping and stumbling as the sand crumbled away from under his feet.
The low carriage jolted over the deep ruts left by the carts which had carried the bracken the previous autumn, as the stout pony threw himself into the collar with a will.
She hurried the pony as much as possible along the road they had so lately come.
So saying she turned the pony round and they retraced their road.
The pony slowed to a walk as the road mounted an incline, and after a few minutes they came in sight of the church, which stood on rather higher ground, with its square tower and grey flint walls wreathed in ivy.
In our picture it is on high ground that the hoofs of the pony of Don Balthazar Carlos tread.
The little duke stands with an air of importance upon the hillside, which is raised above the eye of the spectator as Velasquez raised the ground beneath the pony of Don Balthazar Carlos.
Up the avenue raced the pony and up the dozen steps that led to the gallery, just at the moment that the huge bulk of a round-eyed colored "mammy" blocked the doorway of the hall.
He is leading a pack-pony laden with his travelling kit, and mechanically obeys when I motion for him to halt.
