I will here add that since my residence in Chicago I purchased a very handsome balky horse for ninety dollars, which I succeeded in breaking within ten days by Prof.
The horse proved to be an obstreperous, balky thing, and as contrary as a mule.
I remember a balkyhorse that used sometimes to be in the livery barn in the city.
Another said he used to be balky until his present owner bought him, and that it came on him in much the same way as the other described.
A man he used to work for had a span of balky broncos.
Burr says he has seen plenty of balky horses started by feeding them an apple or some little thing they particularly like, and I tell you honestly that we horses like dainties as well as anybody.
It pounces upon the innocent but not unsuspicious wayfarer in the form of nosebleed, short wind, earache, balky watches, digestive troubles, sleeplessness and oversleeping.
Midway of the rock-slide of the trough, they stopped, and like balky mules, refused to go forward or turn back.
A balky man is like a balky horse, everybody gets rid of him as quickly as they can.
It's a balky mule," replied Father De Smet mildly, "and very obstinate.
Well," answered Joseph, "there are a whole lot of other things beside balky mules in this world that I wish had never been made.
There are spiders, and rats, and balky mules, and Germans, and it doesn't do a bit of good to waste words fussing because they are here.
I do wish," she added, "that if you hed to git rid of a balky horse onto somebody you'd hev picked out somebody else.
Of all the contrary things commend me to a balky engine on a cruiser.
Giraffe looked at the balky engine, and shook his head.
It is one of the delightful peculiarities of human nature that everybody knows better how to manage a balky horse or mule than the unfortunate man who is trying to.
Just when he wants something done that they might do if they were in condition for work, they have a balky spell and are of no use.
Like some balky horses, they will work only so long as they can have everything their own way.
Walk them about together for some time as slowly and lazily as possible; stop often, and go up to your balky horse and gentle him.
There is a quicker process that will generally start a balky horse, but not so sure.
Do not drive but a few rods at first; watch your balky horse closely, and if you see that he is getting balky, stop him before he stops of his own accord, caress him a little, and start again.
It is better to be perched up here on a bus whizzing to doctor a balky old clock than to be idle day in and day out.
The teacher often is confronted in the schoolroom with an abnormal type of will, which we may call the 'balky will.
Do not drive but a few rods at first; watch your balky horse closely, and if you see that he is getting excited, stop him before he stops of his own accord, caress him a little, and start again.
The immediate cause may be a northeast wind, or a balky liver, or an enlarged spleen, or pickled oysters at twelve o'clock the night before.
We have the same prescription for balky horses and men: for a little while let them alone.
O foolish minister, trying in that way to manage a balky parishioner!
The working mechanic, however, nipped this scheme in the bud by declaring that he was getting the upper hand of the balky engine, and hoped to be able to make a fresh start before ten minutes more had passed.
There was no response, and evidently the balky engine still declined to behave itself.
There was a rattling noise behind me, and I turned, to see Lonesome Huckleberries himself, setting on the seat of his old truck wagon and glaring over the hammer head of that balky mare of his straight at brother Todd and the dead decoys.
After a spell somebody mentioned the Todds and I spun my yarn about the balky mare and the Greased Lightning.
Walking to one side, he pushed with all his strength on the balky animal, at the same time saying something in Quichua that the whites guessed was not pleasant.
At the end of two days of riding the mule, Bob was convinced that the animal was not really as balky as he had at first supposed.
A team of balky ponies on our avenue drew a crowd of people.
Frau Pastorin," said Braesig, "it is not so bad if a beast is balky as when the rascal takes to running; then the Latin riders used to fall off.
George was of course bothering his head about his one favorite pastime, and trying to puzzle out just how he could do something to his tricky engine in order to get more speed out of it, and at the same time stop its balky ways.
