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The wildest colts only make the best horses.
The wildest colts only make the best horses.
Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!
Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!
 Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, 
contented, and really nice English people; and what do you read more 
 Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, 
contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always 
find? That the stables are the real centre of the household. 
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. read more
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.
 His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, 
his belly short, his back full, and his read more 
 His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, 
his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with 
hard muscles.
 [Lat., Ardua cervix,
  Argumtumque caput, brevis alvos, obessaque terga,
   Luxuriatque toris animosum pectus.] 
Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are.
Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are.
 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
 Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
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 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
 Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
   With busy hammers closing rivets up,
    Give dreadful note of preparation. 
 And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they 
run.
 [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit read more 
 And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they 
run.
 [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum.] 
 I saw them go; one horse was blind,
 The tails of both hung down behind,
  Their shoes read more 
 I saw them go; one horse was blind,
 The tails of both hung down behind,
  Their shoes were on their feet.