He's rather lumpy to ride.

I shall get mother to swop him for a horse, if she can.

I say, doctor, what was he like ?" "Who ?--The cob?
Oh, your brother! I fancy he was a fine young fellow, but not particularly good-looking." "At all like me ?" "Not at all, I should say.

But really, as I say, I can recall very little about him." The doctor uttered this in a tone which conveyed so broad a hint that he did not relish the subject, that Roger, decidedly mystified, desisted from further inquiries.
"What on earth," said the former to Mr Armstrong, when at last they had reached Maxfield and the boy had left them, "what on earth has put all this into his head ?" "I cannot tell you.

I rather hoped you would tell him all you knew; it would come better from you.