I am trying to get the Chinese substituted for canal hosses.

How do you like being on exhibition, an' goin' through your paces, like a bunch o' trotting hosses, to see which is worth the most?" "Uncle John," said Beth, "I had hoped I would like you.

"Hosses is high, too," he remarked, complacently, "an' lumber an' nails is up.

"We was talking about hosses and suchlike, which Sinclair talked uncommon slick.

"Sure." "Well, you ain't got a chance of picking up the trail of two hosses out of two hundred.

" "Grab your hosses, boys.

They was sitting down under a tree resting their hosses when I come along.

Picture hosses like themwell, they'd ought to be left in books.

The hosses were now lining up for the start, it was with a touch of malice that Marianne said: "I suppose that's one of your range types?

"But you'll find freak hosses anywhere.

"Look how still the range hosses stand.

Looking first at the range hosses and then at the mares, it seemed that the former were running with twice the speed of the latter, but the long, rolling gallop of the bays ate up the ground, and bore them down on the leaders in a bright hurricane.

If you'll hold the hosses just a minute,' he said, 'I'll go in and see my missus.'

He was that fractious that he wouldn't hold the hosses for me, not for a minute, till I could go in and see, and then' 'Well?' 'The gates was chained, sir.' 'Chained?' 'A chain was round the bars, and a padlock.

"So Solomon up en tol' 'im 'bout de craps, en 'bout de hosses en de mules, en 'bout de cows en de hawgs.

" "Ef you er gwine ter hab any mo' ploughin' ter do," replied Julius, "I 'spec' you'll ha' ter buy ernudder creetur, 'ca'se hit's much ez dem hosses kin do ter 'ten' ter de wuk dey got now.

Dey wuz a medder on de plantation whar dey use' ter put de hosses en mules ter pastur'.

Co'se w'en he went ter de races, he tuk his hosses, en co'se he bet on 'is own hosses, en co'se he los' his money; fer Kunnel Pen'leton did n' nebber

hab no luck wid his hosses, ef he did keep hisse'f po' projeckin' wid 'em.

"But dis yer man wa'n't skeered a bit, en he writ back ter Kunnel Pen'leton dat a bahg'in wuz a bahg'in; dat Lightnin' Bug wuz soun' w'en he sol' 'im, en ef Kunnel Pen'leton did n' knowed ernuff 'bout hosses ter take keer er a fine racer, dat wuz his own fune'al.

Robert Ranke Graves (A); 17Sep54; R135923. GRAY, CHARLES WRIGHT, ed. Hosses; an anthology of short stories.

But, if it comes to fighting, lady, why, he rode a couple of hosses to death and stole another and had a gunfight, all for the sake of seeing you, when a train passed through a town.

Them rocking hosses need a leetle new paint where they sit down, me lords.

Such as him steals hosses and holds up folks and robs trains"

Now, I've seen some mighty short days when I was tradin' hosses.