 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, 84 Which gall'd him in his seat So, 'Fair and softly !' John he cried,...John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon SB In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp 'd... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1908 - 280 pages
...road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. 22. " So ! fair and softly," John he cried ; But John he...trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. 23. So stooping down, as needs he must Who can not sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands,... | |
 | 1908 - 554 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, "Fair and...softly," John he cried, But John he cried in vain; The trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 296 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So "Fair and...became a gallop "soon, In spite of curb and rein. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought; Away went hat and wig; He little dreamt, when he set out, The dogs... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. 85 So "Fair and softly" John he cried, But John he cried...curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must 90 Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pages
...road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. 85 So "Fair and softly" John he cried, But John he cried...curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must 80 Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn - 1909 - 328 pages
...snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat. So, " fair and softly," John he cried, 85 But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop...stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, 90 He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that... | |
 | 1910 - 542 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, ' Fair and softly,' John he cried, But John he called in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein, (p) HC xu So stooping down... | |
 | 1910 - 524 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat So, 'Fair and softly,' John he cried, But John he called in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down as needs... | |
 | 1910 - 298 pages
...and good heed. But finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, Which galled him in his seat. So, ' Fair and softly,' John he cried, But John he called in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down as needs... | |
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He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. 
