The dark thought occurred to me then, and comes back to me now with redoubled force, that Miss Abigail must have given him some hot-drops.

Zany left a large circle of sorrowing friends, if not relatives.

Gypsy, I think, never entirely recovered from the shock occasioned by his early demise.

She became fonder of me, though; and one of her cunningest demonstrations was to escape from the stable-yard, and trot up to the door of the Temple Grammar School, where I would discover her at recess patiently waiting for me, with her fore feet on the second step, and wisps of straw standing out all over her, like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
I should fail if I tried to tell you how dear the pony was to me.

Even hard, unloving men become attached to the horses they take care of; so I, who was neither unloving nor hard, grew to love every glossy hair of the pretty little creature that depended on me for her soft straw bed and her daily modicum of oats.