"Gives her something to do cleaning up after Willy-Willys," he growled
further, and in desperation took to outracing Willy-Willys--"so the
missus 'ull have a bit of time for pitching," and was drawn into the
wood-heap gossip, until Jack provided a little incidental entertainment
in the handling of a "kicker."
But Jack and the missus had found occupation of greater interest than
horse-breaking, gossiping, or spring cleaning--an occupation that was
also affording Dan a certain amount of entertainment, for Jack was
"wrestling with book-learning," which Dan gave us to understand was a
very different thing from "education."
"Still it takes a bit of time to get the whole mob properly broken in,"
he said, giving Jack a preliminary caution. Then, the first lesson over,
he became interested in the methods of handling the mob.
"That's the trick, is it? You just put the yearlings through the yard,
and then tackle the two-year-olds." he commented, finding that after a
run through the Alphabet we had settled down to the first pages of
Bett-Bett's discarded Primer.
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