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notice that she goes out of the yard with a nervous jerking 

 back of the head, as if she were expecting some one to hit 

 her over the eye), Clumber explains her impatience to me, 

 reasonably enough, by saying, " You see she's been standing 

 here in the cold some time, and she's a high-couraged horse, 

 she is." 



I watch her performance on the road with much interest. 

 The Groom runs with her, and she trots, admirably it seems 

 to me. He runs back with her, and she canters, also 

 admirably, with perhaps just such a hint of kicking up as 

 makes me, standing where I am, feel a trifle nervous about 

 my knees. I generally feel nervousness in my knees. {Note 

 for Typical Develop7ne7its. Knees and Nervousness. Their 

 connection. Vol. xix., chap. 8.) Clumber observes that 

 she's a bit fresh now, but there's no vice — none. 



" Take her in, Tom," he says. 



Tom disappears with her into the stable, and I hear what 

 sounds to me uncommonly like kicking and prancing, and 

 Tom's voice saying, angrily, '' Get up, carn't yer ! " 



I look at Clumber, who doesn't hear these sounds. 



Spoker does, and draws his attention to it. 



'' O," says Clumber, " that's the old grey. She's fidgety 

 in the stable. The little mare's right enough." 



We enter the stable, and certainly there is the little mare 

 in the stable " right enough." 



To come to the point, I ask what Clumber wants for her. 

 Spoker repeats this to him, when he replies, to Spoker, not 

 to me, — 



"Well, I don't quite know as she ain't already sold to 



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