Word: texan
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...PASSED the greater part of the summer on my cousin's cattle-ranch in Texas. Among my other memorable exploits there, I bought a Texan pony. To be sure, my early training had not been such as to make me perfect, or even very proficient, in the necessary requirements of the successful horse-dealer. Still it occurred to me that I knew one or two things about a horse; I imagined I could tell one about as far as I could see him. So I viewed my purchase with the air of a connoisseur. I regarded him as entirely...
...talk very much about myself. I'm not egotistical. I am fully convinced of this, for I've heard myself say it a great many times. But there was one topic which I was perfectly willing to discuss, and that was the general excellence and particular fleetness of my Texan. In fact, I allowed it to be pretty universally understood around the neighborhood that I had a little horse with somewhere from three to five feet on him, which he was in the habit of throwing about with considerable promptitude when occasion required...