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" A head like a snake, and a skin like a mouse, An eye like a woman's, bright, gentle, and brown, With loins and a back that would carry a house, And quarters to lift him smack over a town. "
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes - 227. lappuse
1869
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Patroclus and Penelope: A Chat in the Saddle

Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1885 - 224 lapas
...the park, and the power and discretion of a Midland Counties hunter. Like the old song, you have " A head like a snake, and a skin like a mouse, An eye...back that would carry a house, And quarters to lift you smack over a town." May it be many a year yet, Patroclus, before I must pension you off for good...
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Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, 28. sējums

1891 - 484 lapas
...of the saddle, the late Major \Vhyte Melville, had a different theory. His perfect horse was to have A head like a snake, and a skin like a mouse, An eye...back that would carry a house, And quarters to lift you smack over a town. Neither the snake nor the sheep, however, can be accepted. It is held by many...
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Riding

Robert Weir, T. F. Dale - 1891 - 480 lapas
...of the saddle, the late Major Whyte Melville, had a different theory. His perfect horse was to have A head like a snake, and a skin like a mouse, An eye...back that would carry a house, And quarters to lift you smack over a town. Neither the snake nor the sheep, however, can be accepted. It is held by many...
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Road, Track, and Stable: Chapters about Horses and Their Treatment

Henry Childs Merwin - 1892 - 368 lapas
...examined. Whyte-Melville wrote : — " A head like a snake, and a skin like a mouse, An eye like a woman's, bright, gentle, and brown, With loins and a back that...house, And quarters to lift him smack over a town." This comparison of the head of a horse to that of the snake has often been criticised, and yet I think...
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Road, Track, and Stable: Chapters about Horses and Their Treatment

Henry Childs Merwin - 1892 - 366 lapas
...wrote : — " A head like a snake, and a skin like a mouse, An eye like a woman's, bright, gentle, arid brown, With loins and a back that would carry a house, And quarters to lift him smack over a town." This comparison of the head of a horse to that of the snake has often been criticised, and yet I think...
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Saddle and Song: A Collection of Verses Made at Warrenton, Va., During the ...

1905 - 222 lapas
...year" A HUNTER. From a photograph of "The Quaker," property of HC Groome, Esq., Airlie, Virginia 157 44 With loins and a back that would carry a house, And quarters to lift him smack over a town" A Cow PONY. From a photograph made at the ranch of S. "VV. Colton, Esq., McCulloch County, Texas 185...
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Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches, 23. sējums

1906 - 410 lapas
...the best of his year, And the Yorkshiremen boast of his dam to this day. ***** A head like a snake, a skin like a mouse ; An eye like a woman — bright,...house, And quarters to lift him smack over a town.' Alas ! that the price of such a treasure is usually prohibitive to all but fortune's favourites —...
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The Living Age, 248. sējums

1906 - 856 lapas
...perfection by Whyte-Melville:— A head like a snake and a skin like a mouse; An eye like a lady's, bright, gentle. and brown; With loins and a back that would carry a house; And quarters to land you safe over a town. Apache was a pale chestnut, with staring white mane and tail, well ribbed...
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Withyford: An Exmoor Story

Arthur O. Fisher - 1908 - 296 lapas
...your drems !' " CHAPTER X WITHYFOBD SHOW " ' An eye ' like a woman's — bright, gentle, and brown, Loins and a back that would carry a house, And quarters to lift him smack over a town." WHYTE-MELVILLE. THE next morning broke with a cloudless sky and a hot sun. With the genial warmth of...
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Hunters

Frank Townend Barton - 1910 - 258 lapas
...snake, a skin like a mouse, An eye like a woman's, bright, gentle, and brown, With a back and loins, that would carry a house, And quarters to lift him smack over a town." Embodied in the preceding lines, will be found what may be termed, not inaptly, the essentials of a...
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