His feet was covered with moccasins of ontanned moose hide, and one heel was sot off with an old spur and looked sly and wicked.

He was a sneezer that, and when he flourished his great long withe of a whip stick, that looked like a fishin' rod, over his head, and yelled like all possessed, he was a caution, that's a fact.
"A knowin' lookin' little hoss, it was too, that he was mounted on.

Its tail was cut close off to the stump, which squared up his rump, and made him look awful strong in the hind quarters.

His mane was "hogged" which fulled out the swell and crest of the neck, and his ears being cropped, the critter had a game look about him.

There was a proper good onderstandin' between him and his rider: they looked as if they had growed together, and made one critter--half hoss, half man with a touch of the devil.
"Goodish was all up on eend by what he drank, and dashed in and out of the crowd arter a fashion, that was quite cautionary, callin' out, 'Here comes "the grave-digger." Don't be skeered, if any of you get killed, here is the hoss that will dig his grave for nothin'.