Mokus

Every downtrodden Mokus owing $800 on a $500 House is honing for a Chance to Hand It to somebody wearing a Seal-Skin Overcoat.

Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

Every downtrodden Mokus owing $800 on a $500 House is honing for a Chance to Hand it to somebody wearing a Seal-Skin Overcoat.

Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

And all the time Dan kept on saying the silliest things, and waving his whip about his head as though he were a Roman driving a chariot drawn by fiery horses, urging Mokus on to a more and more reckless pace, until at last they had to beg him to stop, they were aching so with laughter.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

Mokus stepped out at a pace that the carrots had never roused him to on the outward journey, yet darkness had come on before they reached Gorlay.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

"I expect she is ever so far towards home by now," said Betty absently, quite absorbed in the interest of harnessing Mokus.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

Mokus through the street, walked on with Betty, leaving the others to follow.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

Mokus, for one, evidently felt that this was no occasion for haste, and

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

She had thought she would get home first and be able to laugh at them and Mokus.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

In any case Mokus was forgiven, and it was with very kindly hands and many a pat that they unharnessed him from the cart and tethered him by a long rope to the stump of a stunted hawthorn bush, close to the remains of a little hut, which, with the old wall, had often caused the children much speculation as to when and why it was built there, and by whom.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

It is not always the funniest or wittiest things that cause the most laughter, and somehow to-day the sight of Mokus flying along on his little hoofs, the dreary scene, the lashing rain, themselves wrapped up like a lot of gipsies, with the risk of finding themselves at any moment tossed out and left sitting in the mud, made them laugh and laugh until they ached.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895