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  • Dick obediently ceased his chant of Mountain Lad, but shook his head like a stubborn colt.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • He stamped his feet, pranced, nickered a not bad imitation of Mountain Lad, tossed an imaginary mane, and cried:

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • But Paula, still astride, leaned forward, imperiously took the lead-part from the cowboy, whirled Mountain Lad around to face Forrest, and saluted.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • On the way back from the sick mare, Dick paused once to listen to the restless stamp of Mountain Lad and his fellows in the stallion barn.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • Dick said quietly, as Mountain Lad, easily retaining his horizontal position once it had been attained, swam to the lower end of the tank and floundered up the rough slope to the anxious cowboy.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • Their excitement was communicated to that entire portion of the ranch, so that the air was filled with shrill nickerings and squealings and answering whinneys, while Mountain Lad, beside himself at sight and sound of so many rivals, raged up and down his paddock, and again and again trumpeted his challenging conviction that he was the most amazing and mightiest thing that had ever occurred on earth in the way of horse flesh.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • He would take her loss with the same equanimity as he would take the loss of Mountain Lad, as he had taken the death of Jeremy Braxton and the flooding of the Harvest mines.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • Coach that will bring them to the Swan with Two Necks in Lad Lane. they were shot yesterday, and I hope they will come to hand good. you will have this letter perhaps by eleven, and if they do not send the Birds soon after from the

    Letter 139 2009

  • “Those youngsters certainly put Mountain Lad on his mettle,” Dick laughed.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • Mountain Lad, swan-diving through forty feet of air, moving down the long room in the dull-blue dress of medieval fashion with the maddening knee-lift of the clinging draperies.

    CHAPTER XXI 2010

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