He has not made the mistake of giving us a smaller horse, but shows us all the coltish attributes, the curling baby hair on the flanks, the slim gawky legs, and above all the concave face and[…]

Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds / And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.

If they did then they kept quiet about it for fear of dead-legs, dead-shoulders, kidney punches, that sort of thing.

[…] he gulped down a chill and glutinous slice of the ice-cream brick, and cocoanut cake as oozy as shaving-cream.