First, a stiff heavy collar just on my neck, and a bridle with great side-pieces against my eyes called
blinkers, and
blinkers indeed they were, for I could not see on either side, but only straight in front of me; next, there was a small saddle with a nasty stiff strap that went right under my tail; that was the crupper.
That honest wagoner is thinking of his dinner, getting sadly dry in the oven at this late hour; but he will not touch it till he has fed his horses,--the strong, submissive, meek-eyed beasts, who, I fancy, are looking mild reproach at him from between their
blinkers, that he should crack his whip at them in that awful manner as if they needed that hint!
Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very
blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.
He tried as it were to keep his mind in blinkers, to see nothing but the light of the candles on the altar-screen, the icons, and those conducting the service.
The blinkers were adjusted again and he felt tranquillized, and repeating his childhood's prayer: 'Lord, receive me, receive me!' he felt not merely at ease, but thrilled and joyful.
You can so seldom get hold of a man as can turn his brains to more nor one thing; it's just as if they wore
blinkers like th' horses and could see nothing o' one side of 'em.
"If I had not taken that turn when I was a lad," he thought, "I might have got into some stupid draught-horse work or other, and lived always in
blinkers. I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors.
And then to be shut in on each side, with these ballads, like so many book-leaf
blinkers! Why, its delightful!'
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His abiding memory of the Scottish game was its physicality - and
Blinker believes Ronny Deila's men can make up for any tactical deficiencies by turning tonight's encounter into a scrap.
But
Blinker - who, like the 26-year-old, was born in Surinam - believes he could go to South Africa if he recaptures his form.