...to toe. His long red cloak, well brushed and neat, he manfully did throw. Now see him mounted once again upon his nimble steed. Full slowly pacing o'er...snorting beast began to trot, which galled him in his ___i • So, " Fair and softly," John he cried, but John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop...

...we'll not stop to consider these now. The Ride — Stanzas 20-49, beginning: "Now see him mounted once again Upon his nimble steed, Full slowly pacing o'er the stones, With caution and good heed." Places passed: The turnpike-gates. Islington. The Wash of Edmonton. "The Bell" at Edmonton. Ware, the...

...case, he was probably in the long run no better off than John Gilpin, of whom it is written that «• The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat." Hitherto the similarity between the Hetman and the Linen-draper has been sufficiently apparent; but...

...to toe, His long red cloak, well brush 'd and neat, He manfully did throw. Now see him mounted once again Upon his nimble steed, Full slowly pacing o'er the stones, With caution and good heed! 80 But, finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot,...

...was — once, long ago, there was. And now there is again. — Beryl Markham, "Was There A Horse with So, fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried...soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his...