"An' when I say outrages and injuries" - Boney waved his tail
furiously "I mean 'em, too. Great Oats! That's just what I do
mean, plain an' straight."

"The gentleman talks quite earnest," said Tuck, the mare, to Nip,
her brother. There's no doubt thinkin' broadens the horizons o' the
mind. His language is quite lofty."

"Hesh, sis," Nip answered.

"He hain't widened nothin' 'cep' the circle he's ett in pasture.
They feed words fer beddin' where he comes from."

"It's elegant talkin', though," Tuck returned, with an unconvinced
toss of her pretty, lean little head.

The yellow horse heard her, and struck an attitude which he meant
to be extremely impressive. It made him look as though he had
been badly stuffed.

"Now I ask you, I ask you without prejudice an' without favour, -
what has Man the Oppressor ever done for you? - Are you not
inalienably entitled to the free air o' heaven, blowin' acrost this
boundless prairie?"

"Hev ye ever wintered here?" said the Deacon, merrily, while the
others snickered. "It's kinder cool."

"Not yet," said Boney. "I come from the boundless confines o'