text:  Disregarding the whinnyings and neighings with which the family received our steed as we passed the field where they were all assembled to see us at the gate from Grannie down to the foal we applied the thong vigorously and chirruped and whistled and cried "Gee!" and "Hither!" and got fairly into a trot; and an easy thing it is to maintain the pace after you have once got into it--in fact you find some difficulty in getting into a slower rate; and if by any chance we pulled up altogether to see a view Polly who was no judge of the picturesque was very apt to turn round and run away home--if the word "run away" can be applied to a very determined walk with no regard whatever to bit and rein