I was in my troop lines one afternoon, blackguarding a farrier, when a loud nicker sounded on the road and a black cob, bearing a feebly protesting padre upon his fat back, trotted through the gate, up to the lines and began to swop How d'y'do's with my hairies.

The Gold Dust maverick heard the voice and with a friendly little nicker rubbed her head against the outstretched hand.

Captain Jack pricked forward his ears at the sound of hoofs and as the beautiful mare leaped around the turn and appeared above the bank of the grade the little roan squealed a nicker of recognition.

Cocoanut produced a match and lit it and carefully ignited the thin, papery end of the ultimate little cracker on the string, and it smoked away and nickered and sputtered toward its object.

Some lighter portion of his mind nickered about here and there on trivial things.

We had already discovered, to our pain, that almost everything in the bush had prickles, of all imaginable shapes and sizes; and now, touching a low tree, one of our party was seized as by a briar, through clothes and into skin, and, in escaping, found on the tree (Guilandina, Bonducella) rounded prickly pods, which, being opened, proved to contain the gray horse-nicker-beads of our childhood.

It put its head out of a little window just over our heads and nickered when other horses passed.

We watched the light and shade that nickered below, the shadow of the clover-leaves, of the long reeds that hung almost across the stream.

The horses heard them squeaking and they nickered.

The vehicle approached with torturing slowness until the dazzle nickered out and he hurried forward to greet Miss Mallory, whose face blanched at the sight of him.

] Faint shadows nicker 'round me, and at times Vague dreams of joy experienced long ago Beguile me for a moment, then I wake; Dim musings of that time when, yet a child, I prattled in the shade of Judah's hills

They nickered at the gate trying to get in.

When the children went down I waved at the horses and they looked up at the window and nickered again and seemed to know me.

I whistl' a certain way he' nicker an' answer me.

An' when they got there, Will, he whistled, an' sure 'nough, old Drennon nickered.

Somethingperhaps it was that consciousness which horses have of the approach of other beings, scent, hearing, or a sense of their own which we can not understandmade the chestnut race-horse lift his head and nicker.

As the dusk drew down, the horse ceased grazing, sniffed the coming night, and nickered softly.

He was answered by a muffled nickering.

" As Waco rose, Lorry's pony nickered.

Waring patted him, afraid that he would nicker.

The horse nickered, and an answering nicker came from the night.

The horse nickered, and an answering nicker came from the night.

One of Bronson's horses raised his head and nickered.

" Just before she reached the Big Spring her pony nickered.

But when Chinook nickered again and the other pony answered, she knew at once that Lorry was there.