Vulgar words in Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. (Page 1)
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Rowland Hill and his Horse 261 Holcroft on the Horse 263 Lord Mansfield, his Joke about a Horse 267 Sir John Moore and his Horse at Corunna 268 Neither Horses nor Children can explain their Complaints 269 Horses with Names 270 Rennie the Engineer and the Horse Old Jack 270 Sydney Smith and his Horses 271 Sydney Smith.--He drugs his Domestic Animals 273 Horseback, an Absent Clergyman 273 Judge Story and the Names he gave his Horses 274 Short-tailed and Long-tailed Horses at Livery, difference of Charge 275 ASS AND ZEBRA 276 Coleridge on the Ass 276 Collins and the old Donkey at Odell 276 Gainsborough kept one to Study from 277 Irishman on the Ramsgate Donkeys 278 Douglas Jerrold and the Ass's Foal 278 The Judge and the Barrister 279 Ass that loved Poetry 279 Warren Hastings and the refractory Donkey 279 Northcote, an Angel at an Ass 281 Sydney Smith's Donkey with Jeffrey on his back 281 Sydney Smith on the Sagacity of the Ass 283 Sydney Smith's Deers, how he introduced them into his Grounds to gratify Visitors 284 Asses' Duty Free 284 Thackeray on Egyptian Donkey 285 Zebra, a Frenchman's _double-entendre_ 287 CAMELS 287 Captain William Peel, R.N., on Camel 287 Captain in Royal Navy measures the progress of the Ship of the Desert 289 Lord Metcalfe on a Camel when a Boy 290 RED DEER 291 Earl of Dalhousie and the ferocious Stag 291 The French Count and the Stag 293 FALLOW DEER 294 Venison Fat, Reynolds and the Gourmand 294 Goethe on Stag-trench at Frankfort-on-Maine 294 GIRAFFE 295 "Fancy Two Yards of Sore Throat!"
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It was great pity the Cardinal d'Amboise had no bastard puppies, or, to be sure, his Majesty would have written his Prime Minister's life too, for a model to his successors.
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She had a bag made, which was always filled with oats, to regale any stray horse or ass; and she has been seen surrounded by four goats, each standing on its hind legs, with its uplifted front feet resting on her, and all eagerly claiming the salt she had prepared for them.
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[196] Boner's "Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria," p. 97.
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On one occasion, when asked by a medical friend, who was commenting on his invariably good health, what physician and apothecary he employed, he replied, "My physician has always been a _horse_, and my apothecary an _ass_!
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Besides I am made an ass of.
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ASS AND ZEBRA.
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Coleridge was conscious of this when, in writing his address to a young ass's foal,[239] he exclaimed-- "I hail thee, brother, spite of the fool's scorn."
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The wild ass, as it roams over the plains of Asia, or is seen in the Zoological gardens along with the gracefully-shaped and prettily-striped zebra, must be admired by every one.
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GAINSBOROUGH KEPT AN ASS.
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I have heard also that a plaster cast of an ass, modelled by him, is sold in the shops in London.
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ASS'S FOAL.
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In the course of their walk they stopped to notice the gambols of an ass's foal.
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'"[243] ASS.
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A judge, joking a young barrister, said--"If you and I were turned into a horse and an ass, which would you prefer to be?"
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"I've heard of an ass being made a judge, but a horse never.
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"[244] Ammonianus, the grammarian, had an ass which, as it is said, when he attended the lectures upon poetry, often neglected his food when laid before him, though at the same time he was hungry, so much was the ass taken with the love of poetry.
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It happened once upon a time, when Mr Impey was, with some other boys, on a visit at Daylesford, that Mr Hastings, returning from a ride, saw his young friends striving in vain to manage an ass which they had found grazing in the paddock, and which one after another they chose to mount.
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NORTHCOTE, THE ROYAL ACADEMICIAN, AN ANGEL AT AN ASS.
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When his picture of 'Balaam and the Ass' was exhibited at the Macklin Gallery, Northcote asked Fuseli's opinion of its merits, who instantly said, 'My friend, you are an angel at an ass, but an ass at an angel.'"
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Though years and years have passed away since, I still remember the joy-inspiring laughter that burst from my father at this unexpected sight, as, advancing towards his old friend, with a face beaming with delight, and with extended hands, he broke forth in the following impromptu: 'Witty as Horatius Flaccus, As great a Jacobin as Gracchus; Short, though not as fat as Bacchus, Riding on a little jackass.'
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He seized the cow by the tail, and cried out, 'It was a gentleman commoner, as he had him by the tail of his gown;' while the doctor, who had caught the cow by the horns at the same time, immediately replied, 'No, no, you blockhead, 'tis the postman, and here I have hold of the rascal by his blowing-horn.'
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Ass, Sydney Smith on sagacity of, 283.
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Ass and zebra, 276.
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Ass's foal, 278.
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Gainsborough and Fowler the tailor, 2, 3; his wife and their dogs, 100, 101; pigs, countryman on, 252; kept an ass, 277.